Dalorion _
Senior Platform Engineer
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolDalorion _ is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Birmingham, Alabama, with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure. He specializes in platform engineering, infrastructure-as-code (notably migrating from Terraform to Crossplane), Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), and automation that enables self-service for application teams. His background spans Java microservices, large-scale migrations from monoliths to microservices, and production-ready disaster recovery strategy design and testing. Known internally for bridging product and engineering, he combines a QA-rooted attention to detail with pragmatic project leadership—having served as interim team lead and delivered measurable cost and maintenance improvements. Dalorion’s persona as a “Tech Priest Enginseer” reflects a pragmatic, curious engineer who enjoys mastering emergent tooling to improve developer productivity and system reliability.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Java Programming, Network Programming & Security, Database Systems, and Software Engineering., Bachelors, Java Programming, Network Programming & Security, Database Systems, and Software Engineering. at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Github Skills (29)
crossplane9
gcp7
aws7
devops6
helm6
pipeline6
cd6
docker6
terraform6
terraform-provider6
cicd6
gitops5
continuous-delivery5
google-cloud-platform5
kubernetes5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ldalorion/coding_exercises
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
ldalorion/provider-upbound
Mar 2025 - May 2025
A @crossplane provider for Upbound services.
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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