Dan Molik
Head Of Infrastructure at Hyperspike
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDan Molik is an experienced infrastructure leader with 13 years building resilient, automated platforms across finance, gaming, and SaaS—currently Head of Infrastructure at iAltA and owner of an IT solutions practice. He blends performance engineering, modelling, and automation to increase development velocity safely, with deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, cloud providers (GCP/AWS/Azure), Terraform, and observability stacks. Dan has driven large-scale monitoring and recovery systems—from managing millions of datapoints and multi-datacenter Nagios/Icinga deployments to designing automated runbooks using graph databases—and has improved both build/test systems and module documentation on the widely used rsyslog project. Known for shrinking feedback loops and keeping stakeholders informed, he pairs pragmatic engineering with thoughtful platform design to keep customers—and internal teams—happy and secure. Based in Buffalo, NY, he’s equally comfortable writing low-level C utilities, contributing technical docs, or architecting multi-tenant operators that scale in production.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at University at Buffalo
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Github Skills (23)
sphinx10
rsyslog10
c1110
c1710
logging10
documentation10
testing9
build-system9
configuration-file8
configuration-management8
configurations8
syslog7
cprogramming-language6
indexing6
c-language6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rsyslog/rsyslog-doc
Dec 2017 - Nov 2019
documentation for the rsyslog project
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on updating and expanding the documentation for the rsyslog project. Their contributions involved detailed revisions to existing module documentation, specifically for the ompgsql and imfile modules, clarifying parameters and providing example configurations. They also added new documentation for the omhttp module related to submittal to Loki, demonstrating a focus on improving the user experience and explaining the functionality of various modules within the rsyslog ecosystem.
rsyslogloggingsphinx
rsyslog/rsyslog
Jan 2017 - Nov 2019
a Rocket-fast SYStem for LOG processing
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 57 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the `mmdblookup` module, focusing on code style improvements, bug fixes, and build system enhancements. They addressed compiler warnings and errors, refactored code for better compatibility, and fixed build issues related to dependencies. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the testing environment, adding new tests and streamlining existing ones for the `omhttp` and `ompgsql` plugins, demonstrating involvement in the build, test, and configuration aspects of the project.
syslogloggingrocketelasticsearchkafka
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