Summary
Daniel Lee is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager in San Francisco with 11 years building and operating large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure. He specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and automation—having rebuilt CI pipelines, created GKE fleets from checked-in code, and enabled automated daily deployments that replaced fragile weekly release ceremonies. His background spans startups and scale-ups where he's driven major cost reductions, datacenter migrations, and disaster recovery automation that lets teams rebuild clusters in under 20 minutes. Daniel combines hands-on engineering with team enablement—running training, participating in architecture reviews, and promoting full team service ownership. Notably, he led scalability planning for high-traffic seasons and eliminated shadow-IT by consolidating clusters into reproducible fleets. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from UC Davis and brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, security, and operational simplicity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelors of Science Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Davis