I help companies and development teams cut cloud costs, ship faster, and build reliable infrastructure. Proven track record with six-figure savings and measurable outcomes.
Specialized expertise in platform engineering, reliability, and cloud optimization
Design and implement cloud-native platforms on AWS and GCP. Kubernetes orchestration, infrastructure as code with Terraform, and GitOps workflows that enable teams to ship faster.
Establish SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Comprehensive monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog to improve uptime and reduce incident response time.
Strategic cost analysis and optimization across GCP and AWS. Right-size resources, implement lifecycle policies, and establish ongoing governance for sustainable savings.
Implement WAF protections, secrets management, CI/CD security scanning, and compliance support for SOC 2. Defense-in-depth approach with automated policy enforcement.
Build robust deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. Automated testing, security scanning, and progressive rollouts that reduce deployment risk and accelerate delivery.
Analyze and optimize application performance including database query tuning, caching strategies, and infrastructure right-sizing to improve response times and reduce resource consumption.
Design and build cloud infrastructure from the ground up with best practices, modern tooling, and scalability built in from day one.
Modernize existing infrastructure by migrating to containers, implementing IaC, and establishing GitOps workflows for improved maintainability.
Keep-the-lights-on support with on-call coverage, incident response, and continuous improvement to reduce toil and increase reliability.
Real results from recent engagements
Unlocked six-figure savings by rebalancing a multi-cloud footprint.
Migrated an IoT control plane to GCP without service interruption.
Embedded SRE fundamentals to raise reliability for a fast-growing platform.
A proven engagement model focused on delivering measurable value
Explore your platform, repositories, tooling, and stakeholder goals to understand where the platform is today and where it needs to go.
Break the work into a kanban backlog with prioritized tickets, clear owners, and right-sized sync cadence so everyone knows what’s coming next.
Ship improvements in tight loops—IaC, CI/CD, progressive delivery—while pairing with your engineers through reviews, workshops, and async updates.
Align documentation, CI, observability, and iterative improvement plans so the platform keeps getting better long after the engagement wraps.
"He led our AWS-to-GCP migration end-to-end—architecture, Terraform, and rollout—and de-risked timelines. Reliable partner across engineering and exec stakeholders."
"Dan paired FinOps with reliability for us—cut about $160k/year across GCP and AWS, moved us to Artifact Registry and tighter Cloud Armor, and steadied Cloud Run/Redis so incidents stopped derailing launches."
Design and deploy production infrastructure on AWS and GCP. Full-stack cloud expertise from compute and networking to security and data services.
Build declarative, version-controlled infrastructure with Terraform and Kubernetes. Everything from VPCs to complete platform environments.
Implement SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Build monitoring and alerting systems that reduce MTTR and improve system reliability.
Build CI/CD pipelines that enable rapid, safe deployments. Automate testing, security scanning, and progressive rollouts.
Analyze cloud spending, right-size resources, and implement governance for sustainable cost management without sacrificing performance.
Implement defense-in-depth security practices. WAF configuration, secrets management, and compliance support for SOC 2 and HIPAA.
Let's discuss how I can help reduce your cloud costs, improve reliability, and accelerate your engineering velocity.
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