Make ship happen.
I’m Danielle. I help teams spend less time fighting their tools and more time shipping software. My focus is platform and cloud engineering, mostly AWS. I also co-organize the Believe in Serverless community, and I’m an AWS Serverless Hero.
Selected Projects
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Getting Claude Code onto shared compute
Developers shouldn’t have to wait for me to troubleshoot failed deploys. I built cfn-investigator with Claude Code, CodeBuild, and AWS MCP to help them investigate CloudFormation failures.
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Running an open-weight model on AWS
I ran vLLM on a GPU instance in my own AWS account to see what self-hosting a coding model takes. GPUs were hard to get, and the results trailed hosted Claude.
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Is it snowing in Hillsboro?
Portland’s snow site wasn’t accurate for my area, so I built one for Hillsboro. It answers one question while giving me hands-on experience with Step Functions and AWS CDK.
Selected Writing
Getting Claude Code off my laptop and onto shared compute
Published:Pour one out for Infrastructure Composer
Published:Good DevOps Engineers Leave Trails Not Gates
Published:AWS Fargate on a Budget
Published:Serverless Weather Reporting with AWS Step Functions and CDK
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Selected Speaking
- Rethinking Serverless - AWS Community Day Bay Area 2024
- CI/CD with the AWS CDK and GitHub Actions at a Startup 2025
- AWS Anti-Patterns That Will Cost You Later 2025
- Serverless Chats Ep. 25 2019