Daniel Mills
Senior System Administrator
Port Orchard, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Mills is a Senior System Administrator with 11 years of infrastructure and systems experience, currently driving operations at Qumulo after senior roles at Dell EMC and Isilon. He blends deep cross-platform expertise (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android) with strong virtualization and automation skills, regularly owning design, implementation, and management of complex environments. A pragmatic self-starter and team leader, he also contributes to open-source tooling—improving automation and testing in the widely used ansible-lint project by refactoring rules handling and expanding environment variable support. Comfortable bridging hands-on engineering and clear stakeholder communication, he delivers reliable, scalable systems while mentoring teammates and taking the lead on challenging projects.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
ansible-lint10
ansible-galaxy10
python10
ansible10
testing9
environment-variables9
automation9
automations9
git7
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible-lint
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved and can fix some of the most common ones for you
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the automation and testing aspects of the Ansible lint project. Their work involved adding tests to expand environment variables and user directories within exclude paths and rules directories. They refactored the code by moving rulesdir expansion into the `RulesCollection` class and utility functions, also making improvements to the expansion of environment variables and Unix home directories.
ansible-lintansiblepre-commit-hookdot-configpep-621
evilhamsterman/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Jul 2026
Contributions:276 pushes, 5 branches in 11 years 8 months
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