Summary
Dan Clough is a Lead Software Engineer and cloud platform architect with 10 years of experience building resilient, secure, and cost-efficient cloud-native platforms at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He combines hands-on skills in Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD automation with an MBA in Supply Chain Management to drive pragmatic FinOps and operational improvements—most notably delivering $1M in annual cloud savings. A strong communicator and team leader, he translates complex technical concepts for stakeholders while instilling a "security first" culture and improving deployment repeatability across enterprise systems. His background spans system engineering, SRE governance, and large-scale EHR migrations at Cerner, where he led automation and reliability efforts across thousands of devices and clients. Outside work he co-leads a nonprofit supporting families through perinatal loss, reflecting a commitment to community impact beyond technology.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Supply Chain Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA Supply Chain Management at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English