Daniel Valfre
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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RockstarDaniel Valfré is a seasoned cloud and systems engineering leader with over two decades of Linux and infrastructure experience and 11 years in senior roles delivering production-grade PaaS and support services from Dubai. For the past three years he has run a fully remote, 24/7 global team of cloud technology specialists responsible for building platform products, retaining customers, and operating day-to-day support. His background spans devops, system administration, low-level programming, telco and service-based system development, and container orchestration, giving him a pragmatic knack for selecting the right tools for complex problems. He pairs hands-on operational work—such as tuning Varnish, Elasticsearch and Nginx recipes in notable community repos—with customer-facing support, requirements gathering, and stakeholder management. An active advocate for open source and community participation, he also teaches, presents, organizes conferences, and runs workshops on cloud and free software philosophy. Colleagues describe him as a versatile engineer-manager who bridges deep technical chops with empathy for customers and teams.
11 years of coding experience
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (15)
amazon-elasticsearch10
chef-client10
configuration-management10
elasticsearch10
chef-solo10
elasticsearchquery10
nginx10
aws-elasticsearch10
varnish10
devops10
elasticsearch-api10
cloud-infrastructure9
log-rotation9
automation8
automations8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
engineyard/ey-cloud-recipes
Jan 2016 - May 2019
A starter repo for custom chef recipes on EY's cloud platform. These are for reference, and do not indicate a supported status.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:35 commits, 21 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on configuring and maintaining infrastructure components within the EYCloud platform. Contributions included adding log rotation for Solr, upgrading Varnish to version 3.0.3, and implementing a basic recipe to block unwanted bots/IPs at the Nginx level. They also made modifications to the Elasticsearch configuration and recipes, fixing permissions and setting the default version, indicating a strong understanding of the infrastructure's operational aspects.
recipescookbookrecipechef-recipesstatus
engineyard/core-client-rb
May 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 review, 10 commits, 5 PRs in 5 years 9 months
apiruby-clientrubycore-apiyard
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