Daniel Rife
Senior Web Operations Engineer
Gig Harbor, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Rife is a Senior Web Operations Engineer with 14 years of experience building and running cloud-native infrastructure and microservices. He has led global teams and managed multi-cloud AWS/GCP environments, maintaining 20+ Kubernetes clusters, driving Terraform adoption, and ensuring CIS compliance. A polyglot engineer comfortable in Go, Python, Ruby, C/C++, and Unix tooling, he combines deep systems knowledge with a mathematician’s rigor from graduate-level training. His background includes hands-on SRE work, monitoring/alerting systems, and upgrading legacy platforms into automated CI/CD pipelines. Previously a math instructor and research programmer, he brings rare experience translating formal algorithmic thinking into reliable production systems. Based in Gig Harbor, WA, he’s known for bridging customer-facing incident response with long-term infrastructure modernization.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Mathematics, M.S, Mathematics at UC Santa BarbaraB.S, Mathematics, B.S, Mathematics at California State University, Bakersfield
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Github Skills (71)
druid9
high-performance9
aws-services9
java9
database8
hanami8
sql8
test-kitchen8
rightscale8
apache8
kafka8
spark8
postgresql7
golang7
apache-druid7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
flexera-public/right_aws_api
Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
Ruby gem to access many AWS services
Contributions:21 commits, 17 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 11 months
ruby-gemtest-kitchenrubyaws-servicesdry-rb
flexera-public/right_amqp
Jun 2013 - Apr 2016
RightScale AMQP client rubygem
Contributions:2 commits, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
rubyrightscalerubygemamqp-clientamqp
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