Summary
Daniel Santos is a Staff DevOps Engineer based in Calgary with over 10 years of hands-on experience building and operating highly available cloud and Linux environments. He has led SRE and DevOps efforts at HashiCorp, Cisco, Zapier and StackAdapt, designing resilient systems using Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Vault, ECS and AWS multi-region architectures. Daniel specializes in automation and recovery: he implemented Golang services for request routing, Temporal-based DR workflows, and fully automated migrations and load-testing frameworks. He combines deep systems troubleshooting and security hardening with pragmatic API and tooling development in Shell, Python and Go. Known for translating operational needs into reproducible infrastructure and runbooks, he also drives cross-functional RFCs and observability via Datadog. A longtime practitioner of high-availability engineering, he brings a bias for automation that reduces blast radius and on-call toil.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Universidade de Fortaleza
Portuguese, English