Summary
Dan Robertson is a seasoned infrastructure engineer with 16 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available cloud and hybrid hosting platforms. Currently driving a multi-region API gateway on Kong that handles 8k+ TPS across AWS, Azure and VMware, he combines infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible), scripting (Python, PowerShell) and application work (FastAPI, Kubernetes) to own solutions end-to-end. His background spans private cloud and global data center operations—leading SAP HANA cloud offerings and managing thousands of ESXi hosts—bringing deep expertise in Windows, RHEL, VMware and networking. Dan’s career shows a practical blend of hands-on crisis management, tooling and CI/CD standardization, and a knack for turning operational complexity into repeatable automation. Based in Wentzville, MO, he pairs enterprise-scale reliability skills with developer-focused delivery, often building the very tools his teams use in production.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
AAS Computer Networking Systems, AAS Computer Networking Systems at ITT Technical Institute - Arnold
English