Daniel Shirley
Linux System Engineer at The Home Depot
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Shirley is a Linux System Engineer and architect with 12+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating large-scale, high-availability infrastructure across retail, cloud, and edge environments. He currently architects and maintains one of the largest enterprise Linux fleets—120,000+ servers—driving modernization across Puppet, SaltStack, and Ansible while integrating CI/CD and observability to reduce incident noise and change failures. He blends bare-metal and virtualization expertise (Proxmox, VMware) with cloud and container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenStack) to deliver resilient, scalable platforms and has designed 1,000+ edge clusters with 99.99% uptime. A pragmatic automation advocate and mentor, Daniel led a multi-team Python 2→3 migration and introduced SLO-driven monitoring improvements that materially cut alert fatigue. He thrives in remote, cross-functional teams, translating operational complexity into documented, testable infrastructure-as-code. Beyond ops, he brings a hands-on datacenter background from large-scale server build-outs to enterprise cloud operations, giving him rare end-to-end perspective on reliability and delivery.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science, Computer Networking Systems, Associate of Science, Computer Networking Systems at ITT Technical Institute
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
icinga9
honeypot8
routeros8
monitoring7
movie7
security7
syntax-highlighting7
scp7
act7
cli7
ssh7
extensible7
minitest7
shell6
sftp6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aditaa/freeciv-score-graph
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
aditaa/jenkins-config
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:57 pushes in 1 day
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