Dan Ward Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Australia

As the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Allotrac, I played a pivotal role in maintaining site reliability, optimizing deployment processes, and overseeing the application development lifecycle alongside supporting the CEO in day to day operations.Initially tasked with managing data output from over 100 clients across a fleet of monolithic servers, my role evolved to encompass DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) responsibilities as well as guiding the development team across… Show more As the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Allotrac, I played a pivotal role in maintaining site reliability, optimizing deployment processes, and overseeing the application development lifecycle alongside supporting the CEO in day to day operations.Initially tasked with managing data output from over 100 clients across a fleet of monolithic servers, my role evolved to encompass DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) responsibilities as well as guiding the development team across best practices and deliverables for our clients.Reengineering of the deployment stack, transitioning from ElasticBeanstalk and RDS to Kubernetes and Percona Xtradb, leading to a massive cost decrease in the platforms overall OpEx.Design and implementation of projects for new customer rollouts including route/job optimisation workflows, embedded hardware integrations and 3rd party data exchange pipelines.Research, develop and deploy the infrastructures monitoring systems, ranging from New Relic, Datadog, Nagios, bespoke monitoring scripts and reporting including consolidating observability platforms into single points of truth for stakeholders using technologies such as Prometheus and Grafana. Show less

Consulting contract for multiple clients with both greenfield and existing projects.Implemented a variety of cloud first deployment options for consulting clients Domains including mining, hospitals, medical research and development.Pre-sales and post sales technical support and project scoping for account and sales executives.Perform monthly maintenance and review of managed cloud environments.Provide data driven insights to custom customer metrics and… Show more Consulting contract for multiple clients with both greenfield and existing projects.Implemented a variety of cloud first deployment options for consulting clients Domains including mining, hospitals, medical research and development.Pre-sales and post sales technical support and project scoping for account and sales executives.Perform monthly maintenance and review of managed cloud environments.Provide data driven insights to custom customer metrics and KPIs through statistical and machine learning techniques Show less

Main point of contact for all internal staff hardware and software requirements and purchasing.Maintain and expand existing on premise bound infrastructure.Continue to adapt infrastructure to the company's growing requirements over rapid scaling events as the market and industry grew.Reported to multiple CTOs over the businesses lifespan, adapting with engineering and executive changesImplemented complete shift of product, infrastructure and development into AWS… Show more Main point of contact for all internal staff hardware and software requirements and purchasing.Maintain and expand existing on premise bound infrastructure.Continue to adapt infrastructure to the company's growing requirements over rapid scaling events as the market and industry grew.Reported to multiple CTOs over the businesses lifespan, adapting with engineering and executive changesImplemented complete shift of product, infrastructure and development into AWS services including EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda and ELB.Build extensive DevOps teams through internal and external hires to support the expanding development and engineering teams.Attended and interacted with extensive business and technical events, including presentations at AWS Summits - (“Scaling from 10,000 to 10,000,000 users as a one man band”) Show less