Biography

Dave Lyons is a DevOps/Cloud Engineer at UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, where he works on the Wisconsin Health Data Hub project. His work focuses on Azure cloud infrastructure, healthcare data systems, and CI/CD pipelines across clinical research environments.
He is a US Army veteran who speaks from personal experience about navigating a mental health crisis and returning to work and what his team did that made all the difference.

2026 Sessions

What Good Leadership Actually Looks Like. A Story About Mental Health, Trust, and Teams