Daniel Washburn

Technologist

daniel@washburn.at — https://daniel.washburn.at/

Skills

Cloud: Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Joyent Triton Datacenter
Platform Automation: Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Puppet, Kickstart, PXE
Big Data: Cloudera CDH, Hortonworks HDP, Hadoop, HBase, Google DataProc, Spark
DBMS: PostgreSQL, MySQL/Mariadb, SQL Server, Snowflake, Google BigQuery
Virtualization: VMWare, KVM, Bhyve, Solaris Zones, FreeBSD Jails, Docker/LXC
Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu), AIX, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Illumos (SmartOS)
Web: SSL, HTTPS, Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, Tomcat, Wildfly
HA/Clustering: Red Hat Cluster Services, Linux-HA, DRBD, GFS2
Monitoring: Ganglia, Cacti, Zenoss Enterprise, OpenTSDB, SNMP, Grafana, Prometheus
Networking: IPv6, Firewall (iptables, pf), DNS (BIND, NSD, Unbound), DHCP
Storage: Google Cloud Storage, S3, Brocade, HP EVA, IBM XiV, Linux MPIO, ZFS, Joyent Manta
Email: Exim, Dovecot, Postfix, IMAP, DKIM, SPF
Agile: Kanban, scrum
Advanced proficiency with Bash, Korn Shell, Awk, git
Proficiency with Python, Perl, SQL
Basic proficiency with PHP, Ruby, C, R, SAS

Certification

Red Hat Certified Engineer: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Certified Scrum Product Owner: Scrum Alliance

Experience

Key Bank, NA, Cleveland, OH — August 2013–Present

Senior Cloud Architect — September 2019–Present

Senior cloud architect, cloud architecture team lead, and senior devops engineer responsible for designing and driving Key Bank’s adoption of cloud and next-generation on-premises application platforms.

Senior Infrastucture Engineer — March 2018–August 2019

Infrastructure architect, senior engineer, and technical leader responsible for delivering Big Data and Analytics solutions for the Enterprise Data Progam. Worked closely with senior management, enterprise architecture, and line of business delivery stakeholders to expand and refine the Data Supply Chain. Conducted proof-of-concept evaluations for various Enterprise Data and Analytics stakeholders.

Lead Infrastucture Engineer — March 2015–March 2018

Infrastructure architect and recognized technical leader, responsible for the infrastructure design, technical implementation, and security of Key Bank’s Big Data platform. Worked with management and delivery stakeholders to build a robust, secure, and performant Big Data processing environment which met the rapidly expanding needs of the Key Bank Data Program.

Technical leader of a team of three to five engineers
Designed, scheduled, and excuted the creation of multiple, independent Hadoop/BigSQL environments
Worked with the Unix platform team to simplify and streamline bulk server deployments
Planned, coordinated, and executed the upgrade of IBM BigInsights 4.1 to version 4.2
Provided insight on various technologies to peers and management as a member of the Technology Planning Council

Experience (cont’d)

Infrastucture Engineer — August 2013–March 2015

Responsible for maintaining and improving high-performance ETL and Data Analytics platforms, including Ab Initio, SAS, and R.

Designed and implemented real-time monitoring dashboards using Ganglia
Developed a variety of on-demand capacity utilization reports using SQL and Perl
Performed advanced application performance benchmarking using iozone
Worked closely with peer teams to diagnose and resolve application performance issues
Acted as coach and mentor to new junior hires

Explorys, Inc., Cleveland, OH — June 2011–February 2013

Systems Engineer

Responsible for the daily operations of one of the largest Apache Hadoop BIG DATA clusters in Ohio. Designed and built proprietary secure data gateway appliances which were deployed inside hospital networks nationwide. Used automation wherever possible to decrease deployment time and ensure consistency.

Deployed and managed high-performance Hadoop and HBase nodes
Performed troubleshooting and advanced tuning of JVMs on Hadoop and HBase nodes
Developed high availability data appliances using Linux-HA, Keepalived, DRBD, and GFS2
Wrote custom monitoring scripts to make application data available to Zenoss via SNMP
Worked with development teams to define processes and deliver robust data processing environments

Applied Industrial Technologies, Cleveland, OH — April 2007–June 2011

Server Administrator

Unix Administrator, Storage Engineer, and System Architect. Spearheaded the design and implementation of data center-wide virtualization with VMware vSphere. Designed and implemented Storage Area Networks for VMware and SAP environments. Worked with multiple lines of business to ensure application availability and performance.

Deployed and managed Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers and IBM AIX 6.1 LPARs
Configured server and application health monitoring using Nagios, Cacti, and SNMP
Configured and conducted advanced performance tuning of HP EVA and IBM XiV SANs
Authored, revised, and audited control narratives to ensure SOX compliance
Designed, documented, and tested Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans

Volt Technical Services, Cleveland, OH — December 2006–April 2007

Linux System Administrator

On contract to Applied Industrial Technologies. Responsible for the configuration and maintenance of a dedicated IBM WebSphere development environment. Worked closely with developers and project managers to resolve source code conflicts and ensure compliance with the company’s SDLC.

Deployed and managed IBM WebSphere 5 and 6 servers
Ported a proprietary LDAP schema for use in OpenLDAP
Converted enterprise source code repositories from CVS to Subversion
Worked with project managers to create a process for source code branch lifecycles
Provided desktop and application support to developers.