I’m Daniel
Cloud Engineer

I'm not a millenial1 but lucky enough to have grown up with a computer in the house. Managing computers for a living since 2007. Moved to the Cloud around 2015. In a container building industry since 2017.
1According to Wikipedia, I am a millenial.

About Me

I'm a DevOps minded engineer with passion

I came across DevOps methodologies and tools in 2015, when I had just started working in Shoreditch for a company in the Telco business. I was blown away how you could step up your automation game on AWS with the likes of Chef or Ansible. How you could use a build tool like Teamcity or Jenkins to not only build code, but to actually create the infrastructure on some Cloud Provider that hosts that code.

My big love -though- came a little bit later. While watching many many Youtube videos about DevOps, Agile and it's tools, I bumped into this company called HashiCorp that developed a few tools for the DevOps Toolchain. I tried them all and fell in love with how they think about Infrastructure Automation, Secrets Management or Service Discovery. I -then- started learning a lot about these tools, and today I happily preach and teach these tools as they're among the best.

A tiny slice of how I help companies:

  • Architect Cloud Infrastructures from planning to implementing
  • Help developing custom solutions if there's no tool for the job
  • Design Microservice architectures when breaking away from a monolith
  • Advise on DevOps Best Practices
  • Teach the HashiStack
  • Present on Meetups to share the knowledge

Main competencies:


Hashicorp Terraform
Hashicorp Vault
Hashicorp Consul
Hashicorp Nomad
Docker Swarm
Kubernetes
Gitlab-CI/TeamCity/Jenkins
AWS
Azure
GCP

Experience

I actually got a lot more, so keeping it to the relevant ;)
Freelance Cloud Engineer
since May/2020
I believe I could be of more help to the industry if I didn't limit myself to one project at a time.
Cloud Platform Engineer
Rollet Ltd. Jan/2020
I was the integral part of the Tech team building an A-class parking lot automation system, where your car becomes your wallet.
Tech Stack:
  • AWS ECS
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Gitlab-CI
  • Python
  • Go
DevOps and Continuous Delivery Consultant
ECS Digital Ltd. 2017
As a consultant and an Official Hashicorp Trainer, I was lucky to be involved with many different projects around the globe.

Consultancy and implementation:
  • Vault for a fintech startup in UAE
  • Vault for a tobacco company in Switzerland
  • Vault for an insurance company in Switzerland
  • GDPR-related project for a major UK newspaper
  • Federated Teamcity stacks for dev teams at a UK High-Street Bank

Training:
  • Vault training for a major IT consultancy in India
  • Hashistack public trainings in London
  • Hashistack trainings for Hashicorp partners
  • Hashistack trainings for a UK Government Agency
Technologies I worked with: Vault, Terraform, Active Directory, AWS ECS, AWS Batch, AWS Lambda, Node.JS, Teamcity, Docker, Java
Systems Administrator / Cloud Engineer
ContactEngine Ltd. 2015
  • Day-to-day on-call Cloud support (AWS)
  • Log Analysis (Splunk)
  • Development of in-house CI/CD platform (ruby, terraform, packer, bash, vault, powershell)
  • Monitoring (Graphite stack)
  • Alerting (Statuscake, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Splunk, Grafana)
  • SRE tasks
  • Introducing Okta IDaaS with Jumpcloud DaaS
  • IT Asset Management
  • Day-to-day IT and networking tasks (provision and support hardware and software)
  • Deploying new on-site CAT5 network
  • Upgrading Wireless network
IT Systems Analyst
Maglabs Ltd. 2013
  • Maintaining Windows servers
  • Managing Tape Backups (NetVault)
  • Managing Laptop Backups (Backuppc)
  • IT Asset Management
  • Day-to-day IT and networking tasks (provision and support hardware and software)
  • Domain portfolio management and DNS maintenance
  • Managing internal, wired phone system
  • Managing Office365/Google Apps services
  • Migrating sister-company’s email system to Google Apps
System Administrator / Desktop IT Support
Symbol Budapest Ltd. 2011
  • Managing Windows SBS 2003 Server with Exchange, AD, VPN
  • Managing a Windows Server 2008 with MSSQL, Dynamics CRM, Sharepoint Foundation
  • CRM software bug analysis, and keeping contact with developers
  • IT Asset Management
  • Day-to-day IT and networking tasks (provision and support hardware and software)
  • Improving office and Guest Wireless networks
  • Migrating Exchange users and their mailboxes to Google Apps for Business
Systems Administrator / Desktop IT Support
Zaj System House Ltd. 2007
  • SBS 2003 with Exchange, AD, DNS, VPN, Sharepoint
  • Landline - internal PBX
  • Wiring new office desks, or rewiring older ones
  • ERP software supporting, bug analysis, and keeping contact with developers
  • IT Asset Management
  • Day-to-day IT tasks (provision and support hardware and software)
  • Deploying professional LED Walls and control systems