Dan Getzke Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

*Team lead for global team of 6 engineers for AWS infrastructure deployment in US, Cost Rica and India.*Created AWS IaC Pipelines with Codepipeline and Terraform to manage 15+ AWS accounts.*Created and Managed two full stack Kafka Connect clusters for streaming into Snowflake.*Created and Managed centralized logging and metrics solution for 300+ AWS instances.*Reduced AWS infrastructure cost by 1.5 million dollars in one year by implementing FinOps practices.*Managed two full stack AWS Hadoop clusters which supported data and analytics for the entire enterprise.*Managed two full stack Kafka clusters supporting all Kafka for the entire enterprise.*Remediated 12,000+ High and Critical system vulnerabilities in one year.*Worked with Azure AD team to setup the first successful SCIM implementation to use for Snowflake.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead Data Engineer:Platform for Target's Enterprise Data, Analytics and Business Intelligence unit.*Experience with Hortonworks stack.*Chef experience.*Git experience.*The ELK guy.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Big Data engineering for CDH Hadoop shop. Duties were general Big Data consulting and service management. *Supported CDH Hadoop installation with general admin activities, mostly related to Solr. *Converted log management and metrics dashboards from Solr/banana setup to the latest ELK setup.*Created 10+custom Nagios plugins.*Created 7+ Ansible plays.*Created Amazon EC2 stack templates for rapid deployment of MongoDB, Kafka and CDH Hadoop. *Gained experience with bare metal builds: iDRAC, PXE Boot, Kickstart, LVM.*Experience with a Spacewalk setup.

Eagan

My primary responsibility is to evaluate, develop, test, build, and maintain Big Data infrastructure and services. I am also the primary support contact for Big Data services deployed in data centers around the world.I have gathered data from several relational database management systems and normalized into a single NoSQL database to solve my own difficult work problems where no good solution existed.Daily activities include:*Evaluating new Big Data technologies and providing recommendations*Tuning of Big Data technologies*Installation scripting*Change management and orchestration*Documentation of new configurations, procedures and technologies*Troubleshooting of Big Data technologies and services*Application development using distributed technologies*Cloud development and automation tooling