Summary
Darius Aliabadi is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms and solving high-stakes, ambiguous technical problems for enterprise customers. He led transformational work at AWS as a Principal Enterprise Architect—creating a fixed-cost migration offering that generated £100M+ bookings, architecting award-winning MLOps frameworks, and executing multi-thousand-server migrations and post-ransomware recoveries with measurable cost and security wins. Earlier roles include founding the technical stack at children’s media startup Azoomee and pioneering AWS adoption and Infrastructure as Code at News UK, showing a consistent pattern of shipping end-to-end infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer tooling from first principles. Darius blends hands-on systems engineering (Kubernetes, CDK, Terraform, Python, TypeScript) with commercial impact—personally closing large deals and mentoring hundreds through hiring and training programmes. He’s comfortable turning constraints into leverage, often architecting pragmatic, layered platforms that enable teams to move from zero to production at scale. Based in Surrey Heath, he combines enterprise-grade rigor with startup inventiveness and a knack for translating complex technical risk into executable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computer Science, MEng, Computer Science at University of Southampton