Dan Mikita
CEO Principal Architect at DevsOperative
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolDan Mikita is a cloud-native architect and founder-turned-enterprise Account Solution Architect with over a decade of experience designing, building, and operating modern application platforms. At Red Hat he translates business priorities into practical strategies across Kubernetes, OpenShift, automation, and application modernization, serving as a trusted advisor for measurable outcomes. Prior to Red Hat he founded and scaled DevsOperative, a platform engineering consultancy that delivered Kubernetes and compliance-minded solutions across healthcare, insurance, and education—giving him operator empathy for long-term customer success. His hands-on background includes implementing on-prem OpenShift, CI/CD automation, and developer workstation tooling, reflecting a pragmatic approach to reducing operational complexity. Based in Grand Rapids, he blends open source advocacy with business-focused architecture and a knack for turning proofs-of-concept into repeatable platform patterns. Colleagues rely on him for balancing product strategy, developer productivity, and the operational realities that drive adoption.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Grand Valley State University
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Github Skills (79)
rest-api10
todoist10
rest10
java10
parsing10
codegen9
code-generator9
api9
developer-tools9
coc-nvim9
vim-plugin9
swagger9
http-client9
openapi9
kotlin9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
danmikita/furl
Jul 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
danmikita/dotfiles
May 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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