Daniel Steadman

About

DevOps Engineer with over a decade of experience in the startup space. Specialties include Terraform, AWS, CI/CD, monitoring & alerting

Experience

• Senior DevOps Engineer · RocketReach12-01-2021 – 04-01-2024

  * Direct report to CTO * Eliminated monthly downtime caused by infrastructure misconfiguration by implementing Terraform modules for all cloud infrastructure and establishing Terraform Enterprise deployment workflows * Minimized production deployment errors by establishing a dedicated staging account * Reduced production downtime by 90% by migrating services from EC2 to auto-scaling, dockerized ECS Fargate clusters with fast rollback. * Eliminated production database bottlenecks by migrating databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL * Reduced employee on/offboarding overhead by implementing Okta SSO and AWS IAM authentication * Increased deployment visibility and parallelization by migrating CI/CD from Jenkins to Github Actions * Greatly reduced incident response time by implementing DataDog, CloudWatch, and PagerDuty monitoring and alerting * Supported ISO27001 and SOC2 certification * Coordinated with developers on new feature infrastructure from design to launch

• DevOps Engineer · DocGo12-01-2017 – 12-01-2021

  * Direct report to CTO * Enabled rapid expansion to eleven US states by authoring and maintaining Terraform modules for all cloud infrastructure * Allowed for rapid billing by reverse-engineered third-party billing platform for integration with in-house systems * Assisted in the launch of COVID testing and vaccination subsidiary infrastructure during lockdown * Supported ISO27001 and SOC2 certification * Allowed for rapid response to system degradation by establishing alerts CloudWatch and PagerDuty and monitoring for all systems * Collaborated with application developers to design and implement supporting infrastructure

• Full Stack Engineer · Betaworks01-01-2014 – 12-01-2016

  Betaworks is a startup incubator. During my time there, I worked for two resident startups: Alphaworks and Scale Model, an investment platform and real-time social media visualization tool respectively. My role was data visualization in d3 and React, Flask and Angular development in Python.

• Full Stack Engineer · Blenderbox06-01-2011 – 06-01-2014

  Blenderbox is a design and development studio that creates websites for many non-profit and government agencies in New York. My role was to implement designs in Rails, Django, Wordpress, and Drupal from conception to launch.

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