Daniel Newman
Lead Analyst, OT at The AES Corporation
Menifee, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Newman is a pragmatic OT and IT leader with 14 years of hands-on experience keeping critical infrastructure and enterprise environments secure, stable, and efficient. Currently a Lead OT Analyst at AES, he bridges SCADA/DCS operations, cybersecurity (including NERC CIP compliance), and systems engineering to support continuous power generation. His background spans service desk transformation, MDM and endpoint automation (JAMF, Automox, Intune), VMware operations, and network/server administration, with measurable wins in uptime and response-time improvements. Daniel also contributes to open-source DevOps work—helping refine Rancher charts and infrastructure tests—showing he still gets into the code and tests that run production systems. Based in Menifee, CA, he combines operational rigor with a knack for process-driven team leadership and cost-conscious procurement.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certiifications, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Certiifications, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at CertificationsGeneral Education, General Education at Orange High SchoolComputer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Palomar CollegeAssociate's degree, Bourbon Whiskey and Scotch, Associate's degree, Bourbon Whiskey and Scotch at Whiskey University
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Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
testing10
rancher10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
orchestration10
orchestra10
networking9
net9
automation9
go9
automations9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:371 reviews, 27 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the project by addressing linting errors, removing commented code, and refactoring code related to alertmanagerstypes.go, specifically organizing and modifying the file within the tests/v2/validation/charts/resources directory. Additionally, the user worked on updating dependencies, refactoring and removing redundant codes for RBAC resources, and implementing network policy connectivity tests, demonstrating expertise in testing and infrastructure management. Furthermore, the user added a chart installation test for Stackstate.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
floatingman/shepherd
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:89 pushes, 33 branches in 8 months
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