Daniel King Email & Phone Number

Wellington, Nz

Wellington, New Zealand

* Build and management of core and project infrastructure deployment pipelines in AWS and Azure* All related infra and config as code - monitoring, logging, alerting, secrets, config etc* Emphasis on workloads in kubernetes, especially AKS in Azure

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

At Magic Leap, I led the team responsible for build tools and services to a development team of hundreds, as well as site reliability for all online/cloud services during APAC hours.• Development and management of our devops tool chain, from repo management through to deployment artefacts for dozens of development teams. • Lead an automation-first approach, demanding that all infrastructure be stored as code, versioned and automated, with zero tolerance for manual configuration, allowing for multiple daily deployments. • Provided guidance, architecture support and technical leadership to teams deploying on both AWS and GCP. • Line management of four engineers working remotely on my team, including product management of the services supported. • Maintenance and development of hundreds of terraform modules and custom providers. • Implemented comprehensive cloud cost control system covering nearly 1,000 AWS accounts and GCP projects. • Owned the production and reporting of KPIs and OKRs for our wider department. • Lead targeted cost interventions, helping teams re-architect their services, achieving savings of several million dollars in cloud spend. • Supported all cloud services for Magic Leap during APAC business hours, including incident management.Key technologies used: AWS, GCP, Python, Golang, Linux, Terraform, Docker / containerisation, bash, Chef, AWS Lambda / GCP Cloud Functions, Postgres / Elasticsearch / GCP Big Query, Datadog, Sumologic, Concourse, Gitlab, Bitbucket Pipelines.

Wellington, New Zealand

• Responsible for all hosted prod/pre-prod environments, achieving 99.9% uptime over 5 years, running on AWS, Azure and traditional hosting environments.• Built and managed our deployment system for pre-prod/production, allowing multiple releases daily with Puppet, AWS/Azure, Fabric and various scripted components (Python/Bash).• Built a comprehensive monitoring suite with Nagios, ELK and Graphite, writing many customised plugins, with approx. 100 hosts and 900 service checks.• Built live dashboards via Grafana, showing critical business, service, billing and system metrics for multiple audiences.• Mentored and trained a team of 4 hosted infra engineers, and work with multiple functional teams in multiple countries to deliver the Connect service.• Extremely comfortable with services and tools such as httpd, haproxy, varnish on Linux to deliver critical web services.• Extensive scripting in Python and Bash to automate many critical processes – billing, reporting, monitoring and deployment.

Pisa, Italia

Generalist MBA, one year full-time.

In April 2006, I joined Digiweb to create a hosting and managed services division for Digiweb, now Ireland’s primary alternative telecommunications provider.This role involved creating the division from scratch, designing the strategy and product range (hosting, cloud and managed services), building a team to service this business and aligning it with the rest of the business.

Boards.ie is one of the largest and busiest indigenous Irish websites. Running since 1998 it has hosted tens of millions of discussions on a wide range of topics, winning many awards and industry accolades.During my time with boards.ie, I was mainly responsible for technical operations - maintaining site performance, reliability and scalability.

During my time at Hosting365, I helped grow the business from a small player to the market leader, with over 20% market share. Roles included management of technical operations, development of the business, management of facilities and network functions and strategic planning.

Dublin, Ireland

I played the central role in designing and delivering software projects to our clients. This was a broadly focused role including pre-sales consultancy, systems analysis and development and systems administration. Over the course of almost four years we grew the company to 12 full time employees and developed a competitive and widely praised content management system product.

Bsc Business And Information Technology, It & Business, Ii.I

Mba, Business Administration, I

Msc Applied Computing, It, I