PhD (ABD), Education
Completed roughly 90% of the doctoral program — all coursework and candidacy, all but the dissertation (ABD).
DevOps & Cloud AI Engineer · Educator · Builder
David Engelhart
Experienced DevOps & Cloud AI Engineer — highly skilled in IaC, CI/CD pipelines, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, AI-assisted development best practices, and various programming languages.
- 💻 Senior / Staff DevOps & Cloud
- ☁️ AWS · Azure · IaC · CI/CD
- 🧑🏫 8 yrs teaching CS (AP · IB)
- 📖 Author, “Terraform to Bicep”
- ⚙️ Creator of Termpolis
I’m a Senior and Staff-level DevOps and Cloud Engineer with an unusual path: eight years teaching Computer Science, eight years building software, and — since 2018 — designing and running cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure. I never really stopped teaching; these days it’s engineers, through DevOps coaching, a book on Azure infrastructure as code, and the tools I build.
About
Two decades between building software and teaching it.
I’m a Senior and Staff-level DevOps and Cloud Engineer whose career bridges two worlds that rarely meet: the classroom and the cloud. I spent eight years teaching AP and IB Computer Science in secondary school and programming at the community-college level, then eight years as a Senior Software Engineer across the public and private sectors.
In 2018 I moved fully into DevOps and Cloud Engineering. Today I architect infrastructure on AWS and Azure, write infrastructure as code, and build the CI/CD pipelines teams ship on. That teaching instinct never left — as a Senior DevOps Engineer and DevOps coach at Assurant, I help professionals across the company adopt cloud, IaC, and CI/CD. I’m the author of Terraform to Bicep and the creator of Termpolis.
Experience
From the lecture hall to the cloud.
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Recent
Senior DevOps Engineer & DevOps Coach
Assurant
Coach professionals across the company to use AWS and Azure cloud resources, write infrastructure as code, and build CI/CD pipelines — bringing the classroom into the enterprise.
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2018 – Present
Senior / Staff DevOps & Cloud Engineer
Various companies
Design and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure — infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and the platforms engineering teams ship on every day.
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8 years · → 2018
Senior Software Engineer
Public & private sector
Eight years building production software across the public and private sectors before transitioning fully into DevOps and Cloud Engineering in 2018.
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8 years
Computer Science Instructor
Secondary school (AP & IB) · community college
Taught AP and IB Computer Science at the secondary level and programming courses at the community-college level for eight years.
Education
A foundation in both code and teaching.
M.Ed., Education
Master’s degree focused on how people learn — and how to teach technical subjects well.
B.S., Computer Science
The technical foundation behind a career of building software and the systems that run it.
Selected Work
Things I’ve built and written.
Creator
Termpolis
A local-first, multi-agent terminal for secure AI-assisted development — Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Qwen working as a team under a security perimeter you control, with a shared long-term memory across every agent and session.
Author
Terraform to Bicep
A comparative, hands-on guide to Azure Infrastructure as Code — how Terraform and Bicep work under the hood, how they integrate with Azure, and how to apply both to real-world scenarios like AKS, App Services, and multi-tier architectures.