Summary
Daniel Hanold is a Principal DevOps Engineer with 14 years of experience building and modernizing cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading multi-brand AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and IaC governance from New York City. He specializes in Terraform/Terragrunt, GitOps, and CI/CD automation across CircleCI, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions, driving reliability, cost efficiency, and secure operations at scale. Daniel has a track record of migrating legacy systems to containerized Kubernetes platforms, redesigning monitoring/alerting stacks with Prometheus/Grafana/Jaeger, and integrating incident workflows with ServiceDesk and PagerDuty. Former CTO of a consumer-facing startup and long-time Drupal/DevOps practitioner, he blends product-minded engineering with hands-on automation and observability work. Originally from Germany, he pairs a global perspective with meticulous governance and a penchant for mentoring teams and standardizing cross-brand practices.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Online Technology Online Analytics Online Marketing, Bachelor's Degree Online Technology Online Analytics Online Marketing at Stuttgart Media University
English, German, French