Hi, I'mDarlene Elizabeth Thursby
Software & Cloud Engineer
Software and cloud engineer with experience building applications, infrastructure, and the systems that connect them. My background spans backend development, frontend work, AWS, automation, and infrastructure, so I'm comfortable working across the stack to take an idea from development to production.
About Me
I work across cloud infrastructure and full-stack development, automating deployments, securing AWS environments, and building the applications that run on them. My background started in scientific computing, running quantum-chemistry simulations on HPC clusters, and I still love turning hard technical problems into reliable, efficient systems.
Learn more about meFeatured Projects
Some of my recent work
Prism Reef
A serverless sample site on AWS demonstrating a cheap, secure, infrastructure-as-code architecture: static content on S3 + CloudFront with a Lambda-backed contact form through SES. Provisioned end-to-end with AWS CDK — no servers to patch or manage.
Wedding Website
A one-page wedding site with a story timeline, photo gallery, live countdown, and an RSVP hand-off to Joy, plus a printable QR code for the invitations. Plain HTML/CSS on S3 + CloudFront via AWS CDK, deployed from GitHub Actions with keyless OIDC. A CloudFront Function can lock it to an IP allowlist while it is in progress.
GLAZZ Window Tint
A conversion-focused one-page site for a ceramic window-tint shop in Mesa, AZ. Built and shipped as a client project on the same cheap serverless architecture: static content on S3 + CloudFront with a Lambda + SES contact/estimate form, provisioned with AWS CDK. Custom domain and TLS baked into the stack.