Daniel Kingshott
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Torin Bainter
Dan is a hands on technology leader who is passionate about technology and growing the people that work for him. When I first met Dan he was a principal engineer in an information security organization we were both a part of, he later took on a new role in engineering management. Dan was equally happy rolling up his sleeves and solving technical problems as he was later leading engineering teams on a mission to improve our CI/CD infrastructure. One other thing I really appreciate about Dan is that he really cares about helping others grow in their career. He can often be found investing time and energy coaching, mentoring, and otherwise leveling up the folks reporting to him, and in my case, folks that don't report to him as well. Dan is bright, on a mission to make things better, and a pleasure to work with.
Michael Kuzma
I worked for Dan at Point Inside as a DevOps Engineer. Before Dan came on board, our platform was kind of a mess. We had regular significant outages, enormous cost expenditures for a small company, and no real processes in place to dig us out of the hole. The minute he stepped through the door, the culture and mindset changed. Operational measures were immediately put in place to handle our major outages, alerting and monitoring were significantly tightened so we could identify problems before they occurred and processes that reduced our expenditure from $150,000 to $30,000 a month while also increasing our app availability from 96% to measuring single digit errors per millions of request. Dan will never tell you what you want to hear but rather what you need to hear. He's an asset to anybody he works with.
Torin Bainter
Dan is a hands on technology leader who is passionate about technology and growing the people that work for him. When I first met Dan he was a principal engineer in an information security organization we were both a part of, he later took on a new role in engineering management. Dan was equally happy rolling up his sleeves and solving technical problems as he was later leading engineering teams on a mission to improve our CI/CD infrastructure. One other thing I really appreciate about Dan is that he really cares about helping others grow in their career. He can often be found investing time and energy coaching, mentoring, and otherwise leveling up the folks reporting to him, and in my case, folks that don't report to him as well. Dan is bright, on a mission to make things better, and a pleasure to work with.
Michael Kuzma
I worked for Dan at Point Inside as a DevOps Engineer. Before Dan came on board, our platform was kind of a mess. We had regular significant outages, enormous cost expenditures for a small company, and no real processes in place to dig us out of the hole. The minute he stepped through the door, the culture and mindset changed. Operational measures were immediately put in place to handle our major outages, alerting and monitoring were significantly tightened so we could identify problems before they occurred and processes that reduced our expenditure from $150,000 to $30,000 a month while also increasing our app availability from 96% to measuring single digit errors per millions of request. Dan will never tell you what you want to hear but rather what you need to hear. He's an asset to anybody he works with.
Torin Bainter
Dan is a hands on technology leader who is passionate about technology and growing the people that work for him. When I first met Dan he was a principal engineer in an information security organization we were both a part of, he later took on a new role in engineering management. Dan was equally happy rolling up his sleeves and solving technical problems as he was later leading engineering teams on a mission to improve our CI/CD infrastructure. One other thing I really appreciate about Dan is that he really cares about helping others grow in their career. He can often be found investing time and energy coaching, mentoring, and otherwise leveling up the folks reporting to him, and in my case, folks that don't report to him as well. Dan is bright, on a mission to make things better, and a pleasure to work with.
Michael Kuzma
I worked for Dan at Point Inside as a DevOps Engineer. Before Dan came on board, our platform was kind of a mess. We had regular significant outages, enormous cost expenditures for a small company, and no real processes in place to dig us out of the hole. The minute he stepped through the door, the culture and mindset changed. Operational measures were immediately put in place to handle our major outages, alerting and monitoring were significantly tightened so we could identify problems before they occurred and processes that reduced our expenditure from $150,000 to $30,000 a month while also increasing our app availability from 96% to measuring single digit errors per millions of request. Dan will never tell you what you want to hear but rather what you need to hear. He's an asset to anybody he works with.
Torin Bainter
Dan is a hands on technology leader who is passionate about technology and growing the people that work for him. When I first met Dan he was a principal engineer in an information security organization we were both a part of, he later took on a new role in engineering management. Dan was equally happy rolling up his sleeves and solving technical problems as he was later leading engineering teams on a mission to improve our CI/CD infrastructure. One other thing I really appreciate about Dan is that he really cares about helping others grow in their career. He can often be found investing time and energy coaching, mentoring, and otherwise leveling up the folks reporting to him, and in my case, folks that don't report to him as well. Dan is bright, on a mission to make things better, and a pleasure to work with.
Michael Kuzma
I worked for Dan at Point Inside as a DevOps Engineer. Before Dan came on board, our platform was kind of a mess. We had regular significant outages, enormous cost expenditures for a small company, and no real processes in place to dig us out of the hole. The minute he stepped through the door, the culture and mindset changed. Operational measures were immediately put in place to handle our major outages, alerting and monitoring were significantly tightened so we could identify problems before they occurred and processes that reduced our expenditure from $150,000 to $30,000 a month while also increasing our app availability from 96% to measuring single digit errors per millions of request. Dan will never tell you what you want to hear but rather what you need to hear. He's an asset to anybody he works with.
Experience
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Samtek Inc
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Cloud Dude
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Feb 2023 - Present
Cloud architecture and engineering for Federal Government Customers. Cloud architecture and engineering for Federal Government Customers.
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Zebra Technologies
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Israel
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Computer and Network Security
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Director, Cloud Engineering and Operations
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Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Lead the cloud operations and engineering for the AI Forecasting division. I resigned when I came to the determination I did not like the culture within Antuit. Lead the cloud operations and engineering for the AI Forecasting division. I resigned when I came to the determination I did not like the culture within Antuit.
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Zoolatech
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United States
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Software Development
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200 - 300 Employee
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Consultant
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Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Consulting on Event Driven Architecture and devops for a Danish Jewelry manufacturer. Consulting on Event Driven Architecture and devops for a Danish Jewelry manufacturer.
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Nordstrom
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United States
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Director Of Engineering
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Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
* Service Mesh* Developer Tools* CICD* APIM * Kubernetes Platform* Hybrid / Edge Compute strategy
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Principal Security Engineer
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Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Fix it.
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Sole Proprietor
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Freelance Cloud Dude
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Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Undertook ad-hoc consultancy work for Value added resellers and over-seas clients whilst recovering from surgery. * CI / CD Design * Cloud Best Practice * AWS APN Accreditations. * Private cloud automation Undertook ad-hoc consultancy work for Value added resellers and over-seas clients whilst recovering from surgery. * CI / CD Design * Cloud Best Practice * AWS APN Accreditations. * Private cloud automation
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Point Inside
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director, Platform Engineering
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Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
Leader of the Cloud Infrastructure and Automation team, responsible for all PI infrastructure, end user, corporate, cloud, devops, infosec, telephony, etc. AWS Stack utilising Chef, EMR, Kinesis and various other standard technologies. Leader of the Cloud Infrastructure and Automation team, responsible for all PI infrastructure, end user, corporate, cloud, devops, infosec, telephony, etc. AWS Stack utilising Chef, EMR, Kinesis and various other standard technologies.
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Best Buy
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Cloud Dude
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Jun 2015 - Jul 2016
Chief architect for an OpenStack private cloud, deployed with Chef on Open Compute Project hardware utilising VMWare NSX-MH for SDN capabilities. Achievements include: * Breaking monolithic controller architecture to a micro-services style deployment mechanism * Defined and undertook in-place upgrades from Icehouse to Kilo * Streamlined chef cookbooks increasing throughput and simplifying maintenance * On-boarded critical tenants through requirements gathering and strict engineering practices * Formed team of engineers in the Seattle Technology Development Center Show less
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Hewlett-Packard
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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300 - 400 Employee
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Cloud Dude
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Aug 2014 - May 2015
Working with the professional services team to enable the deployment of HP Helion OpenStack on premise for enterprise customers. Specialities include: * Workload placement * Advanced architecture * 3rd party integration * Snowflake avoidance Primarily my role focuses on 2 areas: Customer Engagements * Gather requirements from the customer and understand the wider environment. * Build the reference architecture for the customer and provide a proposal to the account team. * Distill design into a more technical CDP and SDP documents. * Undertake / Oversee deployment activities. Strategy * Define collateral for service offerings * Provide strategic architectural advice to the Solutions Architecture team. * Define architectural building blocks required for over-arching use cases. Show less
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Expedia, Inc.
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United States
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Real Estate
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Director, Platform and Virtualization Systems Engineering
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Jul 2013 - Apr 2014
* Responsibility for the team of 8 engineers undertaking Infrastructure Engineering and Architecture activities for Global Infrastructure Services. * Lead team through a successful Mirantis Openstack Deployment of 2 regions each with 2 availability zones utilizing CEPH, ISCSI, GlusterFS, SCALR and Cisco UCS, EMC VNX and HP hardware. * Undertook several key initiatives including Fit for purpose hardware SKU’s, Always Available DR Document storage and native Active Directory Integration of Linux Hosts utilizing SSSD, this lead to a reduction in operations ticket ingress of 30%. * Developed technical team members from Windows only engineers to include Linux and Open Source applications. * Re-Negotiated support contracts with major vendors to include onsite support, Priority level guidelines for incidents and SLA’s as well as support and service processes.* Provided technical oversight to the Platform engineering team and acted as a bridge between leadership and 8 matrixed engineers. * Re-designed GSLB infrastructure from in-efficient DNS based system to a hybrid OSPF / EIGRP Route-Health-Injection based system utilizing existing Citrix Netscaler technology. * Designed and Delivered Gemfire Grid Computing solution utilizing 3584 CPU Cores and 56TB of RAM across 112 nodes with redundant front and back 10GBit network interfaces on the Cisco UCS platform to provide 2N+1 redundancy. * Provided infrastructure and application deployment consultancy to internal customers. * Responsible for defining architecture standards across Global Infrastructure Services Show less
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Operations Architect
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Jun 2012 - Jul 2013
* Working in the Customer Service and Financial Application spaces with Tomcat Applications, Oracle DB and ERP Suite, WS02 Middleware, Windows / Linux and Splunk. * 4th Line escalation point for Application Engineering teams. * Implemented custom RPM packages and YUM Repo for system preparation activities including, Tomcat7, Java 6 and Operational deployment scripts, enabling engineers to take bare metal to running applications in under 30 seconds. * Deployed Graylog2 centralized syslog solution with MongoDB and Elastic Search backend for Cisco UCM Voice systems allowing trended alerts based on call disconnects. * Undertook significant remediation of WS02 Middleware environment including MySQL optimization and circular replication, Application tuning and system patching. Show less
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Unix Engineering Manager
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Aug 2011 - Jun 2012
* Managed team of 7 Unix Engineers providing support and engineering to Application Engineering teams. * Reduced Average ticket resolution times from several days to 2 hours. * Deployed Beyond Trust power broker identity services to integrate Linux servers into existing Active Directory environment. * Remediated External DNS solution from multiple internal masters used for AXFR transfers to UltraDNS to de-centralized solution allowing internal teams to manage their own DNS. * Managed and oversaw Puppet deployment project allowing for centralized configuration management of over 6000 linux servers. Show less
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Manager, Global Operations
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Oct 2008 - Aug 2011
Initially working for Expedia in their London office, managing the infrastructure and application for Hotels.com, I was transferred to their head office in Bellevue WA to run one of their Global Operations Centre and Centralised Tier 3 shifts. * Managed team of 20 Systems Administrators (Linux, Windows, Network, Database and SAN) working 1st shift in the tier 3 operations center. * Ran all major incidents including ‘Code Red’ events. * Direct input to all change advisory board activities. * Drove process improvements through more precise support documentation * Working within the hotels.com brand of Expedia, responsible for all hotels.com Application (Tomcat 6), OS infrastructure and Citrix Netscaler Administration. * Reduced application instability by undertaking a full root cause analysis, utilizing Java Thread Dumps, Java Heap Dumps and Wireshark captures to understand the anatomy of an incident.* Streamlined Application deployment process from several hours across 160+ tomcat instances to less than 7 minutes. * Produced all documentation and architecture diagrams reducing technical and operational debt. Show less
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