Dan Williams
Lead Platform Engineer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDan Williams is a Lead Platform Engineer based in Ottawa with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms that accelerate software delivery. He combines hands-on architecture and team leadership—running platform engineering, bootstrapping a data-platform, and guiding a QA automation transition—to shorten delivery cycles and reduce reporting latency from minutes to seconds. His toolbox spans Kubernetes, GCP, Kafka/Debezium, ClickHouse, Terraform, Vault and CI/CD systems, and he has repeatedly migrated monoliths to service-oriented, containerized architectures. Known for pragmatic automation and observability, he pairs developer-facing platform services with production reliability and a focus on measurable business impact. An early-career sysadmin turned platform architect, he still takes a direct role in implementation while scaling teams and processes.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
System Networking and Management, Networking, administration, System Networking and Management, Networking, administration at Nova Scotia Community College
English
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Github Skills (200)
container-management10
testing10
cpp10
alpine-linux10
php10
validate10
controller10
python10
pods10
yaml10
kubelet10
grpc10
kubernetes10
cuelang10
marketplace10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
massiveco/serverlessl
May 2018 - Sep 2019
Serverless PKI powered by cfssl
Contributions:6 releases, 52 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 4 months
statelesspkiserverlessaws-lambdaaws
massivekube/massivekube
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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