Summary
Daniel Stone is a Sr. Ransomware Incident Response Engineer based in Houston with 12 years of hands-on experience in systems engineering, security, and IT operations. He has led large-scale infrastructure projects, managed hundreds of VMs across multi-cluster VMware environments, and built automation ecosystems using PowerShell, Node.js, Chef, and MongoDB to accelerate DevOps practices. At EnerVest he drove ITIL adoption, deployed CMDB and centralized logging, and wrote tens of thousands of lines of automation that reduced manual toil and supported major M&A-driven integrations. Now focused on ransomware response, he combines deep platform knowledge across Windows and Linux with practical incident playbooks and end-user security training. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic disaster recovery and audit-ready controls informed by years of working with auditors and regulatory requirements. Outside incident response he brings an operator’s mindset—preferring code-first automation and scalable tooling to one-off fixes.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Houston
German