Daniel Amar Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

- Acted as the principal liaison across global teams offering vital support to the US-based engineering team, serving as the sole on-call developer in a US timezone.- Led the architectural redesign and migration of the TorchServe Inference API from EC2 instances to a Kubernetes-based platform decreasing internal inference costs by 50%, optimizing reliability and scalability.- Established ML model CI/CD pipelines, significantly improving deployment efficiency of models into production, accelerating development cycles, resulting in enhanced iteration speed.- Collaborated closely with Product, Data Science, and Content departments to design and implement robust Data Science APIs, integrating both in-house models and open-source large language models (LLMs) on Persado’s internal inference architecture.- Mentored junior engineers on best practices in containerization and CI/CD processes, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the team.

New York, United States

- Introduced a KEDA Scale-To-Zero architecture integrated with Prometheus metrics, enabling dynamic scaling of deployments and APIs, resulting in a 1/3 cost reduction of Kubernetes workloads by automatically scaling availability based on need.- Optimized and streamlined Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for dozens of applications and microservices by implementing inheritance and common pipeline strategies, resulting in a 75% reduction in maintenance hours per year.- Collaborated with development and Data Science teams to design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant architectures, with built-in observability, ensuring seamless deployment and high availability in production environments.- Implemented advanced SSL/TLS encryption standards across all services, bolstering data security and privacy, which led to a 100% compliance rate with industry security protocols.- Supported every production deployment and provided hands on assistance when necessary.

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

- Improved our developer user experience and development costs by cutting down workflow build and run times by ~90%, resulting in thousands of developer hours saved each year- Wrote a converter tool that takes automation scripts written using the older legacy system and helps migrate them to the new OliveScript system, taking ~88% of the manual effort out of this labor-intensive process- Migrated & rebuilt our CI/CD pipeline to Gitlab in order to scan, build and test our product in dockerized containers and user sessions, doubling our iteration speed when compared to our previous Jenkins CI/CD pipeline- Maintained codebase by addressing audit issues and updating underlying dependencies and C-level library wrappers

99 E Main St Columbus, Ohio