Dan Budris
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarDan Budris is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native and security systems at scale, most recently focused on cloud security at Amazon and now at NVIDIA. He has deep expertise in Kubernetes and DevOps automation through significant open-source contributions to Amazon EKS Anywhere and EKS Distro, where he improved diagnostic tooling, release automation, and CI/CD build processes. Dan combines systems engineering rigor from roles in distributed services (AWS DataSync) and SRE leadership with hands-on automation that reduces toil and hardens build pipelines. Based in Boston, he brings a pragmatic focus on testability and observability—evident in his refactors of support bundles and log analyzers—to help teams ship reliable infrastructure. Notably, his background spans both technical ops and community-facing open-source work, making him adept at bridging internal engineering needs with external OSS ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
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debugging10
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
git10
docker10
makefile10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
devops10
k8s10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aws/eks-anywhere
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure 🚀
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 380 reviews, 182 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on improving the support bundle functionality within the repository. Their work involved refactoring the support bundle for enhanced testability, adding analyzers for cluster CRDs and specific cluster specifications. They also implemented changes to the troubleshoot executable, including initial setup, resolving typos, and integrating log analysis. Furthermore, the user contributed to the release process, specifically for the diagnostic collector, and established a process for including log text analyzers based on the presence of log collectors.
kubernetes-deploymentamazon-ekstinkerbellhelmamazon
aws/eks-distro
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) is a Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to create reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:16 releases, 99 reviews, 52 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on automating and improving the build and release processes for the EKS Distro project. Their contributions include modifying build scripts, updating configurations for kOps deployments within the CI/CD pipeline, and setting up git configurations. They also worked on enhancing the build process to support custom base images and unique cluster names for post-submit builds. Additionally, the user made changes related to patch management and bumping the SDK version.
securekubernetes-serviceamazon-ekskubernetes-deploymentclusters
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