Summary
Daniel Kasak is a Senior Database Administrator with 11+ years’ experience designing and operating large-scale analytics platforms, from Netezza and MPP appliances to cloud warehouses like BigQuery and Redshift. He has built custom ETL frameworks, migration and data-quality tooling, and performance-optimization best practices for clients across finance, travel, and ad-tech, and currently works on database reliability at Leonardo.Ai. Equally at home in DevOps and developer-facing roles, he has a track record of shipping cross-platform GUIs, automation for releases and backups, and production support playbooks that reduce operational toil. A creative engineer by temperament, he prefers robust, long-term designs over quick hacks and spends significant time contributing to open-source projects outside work. Based in Sydney, he blends deep hands-on SQL/DB expertise with system-level tuning and a knack for turning messy data sources into reliable analytic assets.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Nambucca High
School Certificate, School Certificate at Macksville High
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Computing / Marketing double degree, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Computing / Marketing double degree at Southern Cross University
English, Japanese, Hindi