Daniel Washburn

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

Licenses and Certifications

• Amateur Radio Operator: General class
• Red Hat Certified Engineer: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Certified Scrum Product Owner: Scrum Alliance

Experience

Senior cloud security architect, senior DevSecOps engineer, and project technical lead for cloud security for Key Bank’s enterprise cloud transformation initiative.

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.

Infrastructure architect, senior engineer, and technical leader responsible for delivering Big Data and Analytics solutions for the Enterprise Data Program. 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.

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

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

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

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