Talented, results-driven technical professional with 15 years of industry experience in systems/network administration and software development. Innovative problem-solver, combining knowledge of systems design and application development to implement practical solutions supporting business needs, with an eye towards reliability, scalability, and security. Able to effectively lead technology teams, coordinating projects and providing guidance to team members. Specialties: System and application architecture, networking, performance monitoring and tuning, system integration and automation, web operations Skills Summary: * Scalable system architecture & implementation. Application design patterns & anti-patterns. * Cloud & classic virtualized infrastructure. AWS service offerings - EC2, S3, RDS, etc. * Configuration management & process orchestration tools - Chef, HPSA, Rundeck, some Puppet. * Application development in Python, Ruby, Scala (recent); Perl, Java, C# (previous). * Solid understanding of operating systems and concepts (Linux, Windows). * Relational database design & implementation - significant MySQL, some Postgres & MSSQL. * NoSQL database systems - MongoDB & some Cassandra. Knowledge of mapreduce frameworks. * Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking. Experienced with major application-layer protocols (HTTP, DNS, etc.). Knowledge of major routing protocols. * Web service APIs (REST, SOAP). * Python and Ruby-based web & network frameworks - Django, Flask, Sinatra, Twisted. * Monitoring system design & implementation. System health dashboarding. * Web, caching, and message queuing server software - Apache, Nginx, Memcached, RabbitMQ, etc. * Team leadership and mentoring; 4+ years management experience. * Agile methodologies. Continuous integration/deployment. * Project management.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Greater New York City AreaDevOps Engineering Lead @ Tasked with building out the initial operations team and base infrastructure for a small financial services startup. Restructured AWS-based deployment environments to improve manageability, security, & stability. Introduced core infrastructure automation & monitoring. Worked with development teams to understand application architecture & provided feedback to improve deployability. From November 2013 to September 2014 (11 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Software Engineer @ Software engineer in a small team responsible for developing applications to exchange data with the company’s warehouse management systems. Tasked with implementing new features and bugfixes in the WMS message routing software and the internal Rails-based admin application. From March 2013 to August 2013 (6 months) Manager, Tools & Integration @ Started in a senior engineer role focused on improving the company’s monitoring solution and other pieces of critical infrastructure (DNS, directory services, etc.). Expanded to lead a team of engineers focused on product integration and platform enhancement/development. Primary team responsibilities included: managing and enhancing system/configuration deployment & monitoring solutions; developing APIs & tools to facilitate process automation and virtualized/cloud infrastructure management; and assisting other technology groups in evaluating and planning the deployment of new technologies. From March 2008 to December 2012 (4 years 10 months) Lead Senior Systems Engineer @ Led a small team of operations engineers tasked with improving the core infrastructure of an emerging multimedia company. Improved system & network reliability and enhanced monitoring capabilities, resulting in a noticeable decrease in downtime. Provided architectural guidance to fellow team members and development teams on improving the scalability and efficiency of systems & applications. From February 2007 to March 2008 (1 year 2 months) Systems Engineer @ Responsible for developing and maintaining the systems and network infrastructure of a rapidly growing, service-oriented e-commerce company. Implemented solutions to enhance the reliability of corporate infrastructure in accordance with business needs. Utilized background in software development to help bridge the operations-development gap. From April 2004 to February 2007 (2 years 11 months) Software Developer/Systems Administrator @ Responsible for fulfilling multiple technical roles at a small “dot-com” startup. Developed web and back-end applications to support business initiatives. Managed the system and network infrastructure, and oversaw the organization’s day-to-day technical operations. From January 1999 to April 2004 (5 years 4 months)

BS, Computer Science @ Columbia University in the City of New York From 1998 to 2002 Danny Meidell is skilled in: Linux, Perl, MySQL, Python, Cloud Computing, Ruby, Virtualization, MongoDB, Web Applications, Scalability, Windows, Java, Shell Scripting, System Monitoring, Web Services