Daniel Rees Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Va, Us

Engineer and Technical Lead for the Kubernetes platform within the security enclave at the Federal Reserve, and an advisor on the Enterprise strategy around containerization.Responsible for defining the platform architecture for our Kubernetes ecosystem, as well as implementing and maintaining that architecture. Primary use-case for the cluster includes hosting containerized GitLab runners for all accounts within the secure enclave. This cluster leverages EKS and the Cilium CNI to overcome the IP exhaustion issues found in EKS, Terraform for the infrastructure deployment, and a combination of GitLab pipelines and ArgoCD for our Git Ops process.

Ashburn, Virginia, Us

Senior Engineer primarily focused on cloud and infrastructure automation. Developed automation pipelines for both the training and inference of geospatial machine learning models. These pipelines are architected to have the component steps be modular so that workflows ultimately become simple orchestration layers and updates to each step do not have to be duplicated. Containers created by these workflows run on Kubernetes with configuration available for resource limits as well as GPU/CPU options depending on the model needs.Designed and deployed a multi-cluster Kubernetes platform leveraging Rancher for a highly distributed infrastructure project. The goal of this project was to identify a way to manage globally distributed infrastructure from a "central" point and provide automation and governance to the whole ecosystem. The infrastructure for the initial Management Cluster was defined in Terraform using a Cloud provider to deploy and configure a K3S cluster running Rancher. From there we switch to the Rancher provider in Terraform to provision all downstream clusters regardless of which Cloud or Data Center they need to run on, providing a consistent framework to manage all of the platforms infrastructure. Fleet was then leveraged to provide a GitOps pattern to manage all applications and services running on any Downstream Clusters.Trained both new and junior associates on all things Cloud, Kubernetes and automation

Mclean, Va, Us

Software Engineer responsible for the development and maintenance of an enterprise Jenkins platform.

Mclean, Va, Us

Software Engineer responsible for the design and development of automated cloud infrastructure deployment services. Developed a framework to containerize the deployment of off-the-shelf, monolithic, applications and integrated that into a CI/CD pipeline reducing the build and recovery time from 3-4 days to 30 minutes. This framework has been deployed across our organization and was recently adopted by our Enterprise teams. Introduced a repository of Terraform modules used to deploy AWS infrastructure with minimal input required from the supporting Engineers. These modules are able to leverage both Enterprise and community standards while simplifying the process of managing cloud infrastructure deployments so that feature teams can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time developing. Implemented both Ruby and Go testing frameworks (Inspec, Terratest) for both infrastructure and application testing. These frameworks can ensure the right resources are being stood up, validate security rules, verify applications come online, and perform connectivity tests between applications (i.e. application to database).

Mclean, Va, Us

Product Manager for a Commercial Bank technology innovation team focused on machine learning and intelligent automation.I am an experienced Product Manager leading an extremely high functioning team focused on solving real business problems with machine learning. Currently, my team is working on problems involving OCR, data extraction, document classification and metadata enrichment through automation. This platform is deployed on a Kubernetes cluster providing us the ability to deploy models and features as micro-services, and the ability to automatically scale with increased volume.

Mclean, Va, Us

• Joined the organization as the iGrafx platform lead and took over as the Product Owner within 2 months• Enabled the iGrafx Process Management platform to be declared as the system of record for the entire Commercial Bank. This included expanding the overall user footprint from <300 associates to over 800 within 6 months and providing training to over 250 associates ranging from general access to advanced capabilities.• Demonstrated advanced process simulation functionality as a next-gen capability for the bank by implementing this technology for the companies Know Your Customer (KYC) process. This exercise provided the team with insights into where their bottlenecks and inefficiencies were, including; misaligned resources, inefficient process flows and reduced employee productivity. • Developed an Executive reporting dashboard that, for the first time, combined data from our Process Management platform as well as our Enterprise Risk Management system. This dashboard was rolled out to both Business and Risk Executives and met with tremendous enthusiasm.• Matured the iGrafx platform to automate the artifact review and approval process eliminating the need for a team of external contractor resources to manually perform this task.

Henrico, Virginia, Us

• Manage large scale projects with a focus on updating and improving a neglected billing system• Lead a team of Project Managers who support small to medium size projects• Drive changes and improvements within the overall department to improve employee engagement• Define and maintain business and technical requirements supporting large scale projects• Document and execute on in-depth testing plans• Evaluate implemented projects utilizing SQL and Python to provide ongoing reporting and data analysis• Report to Senior Leadership on the status of current projects as well as recommendations for future projects and initiatives• Act as the subject matter expert for our internal billing system• Author training materials and lead training sessions to support our Operations departments with project implementations

Henrico, Virginia, Us

• Orchestrated the implementations of multiple 3rd party vendor data integrations• Successfully designed and implemented new system functionality to automate previously manual processes• Executed multiple projects to bring new products into the company’s portfolio • Evaluated implemented projects utilizing SQL and Python for automated scripting to provide ongoing reporting and data analysis• Defined and maintained business and technical requirements supporting complex product implementations• Documented and executed on in-depth testing plans to ensure system functionality was as expected• Authored training materials and lead training sessions to support our Operations departments with project implementations

Glen Allen, Virginia, Us

• Coordinated the IT and Operations implementations for new Long Term Care product releases• Acted as the lead Project Manager for Compliance updates and system functionality improvements• Documented and reviewed updates on project status, risk/issues and project debriefs to members of Senior Leadership• Directed the change management process in support of new product releases by documenting and distributing scope changes throughout the project teams• Maintained project documentation within web and intranet based document repositories for internal audits

Glen Allen, Virginia, Us

• Provided resolution to complex problems and offered alternative solutions when necessary• Identified both system and process improvements while working with both IT and Training departments to implement change• Provided coaching to team members around incorrect procedures and best practices• Responsible for researching and providing resolution to escalated problems

Glen Allen, Virginia, Us

• Responsible for reviewing incoming applications for completion and accuracy• Fielded inbound calls from sales agents regarding status updates and customer issues• Provided production assistance during times of high volumes• Trained new employees in application review, case management and customer service