Daniel Tharp
Senior Platform Engineer
New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Tharp is a Senior Platform Engineer with over a decade of professional cloud and SRE experience built on 25 years of hands-on computing across sysadmin, networking, devops, and forensics. He specializes in AWS architecture and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), having led lift-and-shift migrations and production reliability efforts for Fortune Global 100 customers and consumer-facing services reaching millions of users. Daniel pairs deep operational chops—monitoring, zero-downtime maintenance, and cost/capacity forecasting—with developer empathy from a background in PHP and automated CI/CD pipelines. He has led platform security and SRE teams, modernized legacy PHP platforms into containerized deployments, and routinely bridges the gap between developers, DBAs, and operators. Based in New Mexico, he brings a practical, cross-disciplinary perspective that emphasizes observability and repeatable automation.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of LouisvilleThe University of New Mexico
Github Skills (94)
postgresql10
centos10
laravel10
rust10
typescript10
svelte10
scp10
css10
php10
linux9
operating-system9
docker9
stylesheets9
grpc8
golang8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pxdnbluesoul/Shaqtus
Oct 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years
irc-botpythonbotpython3irc
scuttle/scuttle
May 2018 - Oct 2020
A multi-tenant archive and API for Wikidot.com wikis.
Contributions:368 commits, 34 PRs, 299 pushes in 2 years 5 months
multi-tenantlaravelwikidot
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