Summary
Daniel Washko is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience based in Yorktown, Virginia, who helps development teams deliver reliable, consistent applications across cloud and on-prem environments. He specializes in automation and orchestration using tools like Chef, Git, TeamCity, and Scalr, and manages a diverse stack including Solr, Couchbase, Redis, Nginx, RabbitMQ, Varnish, Memcached, and MySQL. Comfortable scripting and building tooling in Python, Ruby, Node.js, Perl, Bash, PHP, and PowerShell, he bridges the gap between developers and operations to reduce toil and improve observability. His background spans web services management and PHP development, giving him a strong appreciation for both application behavior and infrastructure resiliency. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, multi-language solutions that keep services performant and recoverable under real-world load.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Penn State Great Valley