Daniel Watrous
Senior Principal Engineer, Enterprise AI Strategy
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Watrous is a Senior Principal Engineer who blends 13+ years of deep engineering experience with executive-facing cloud and AI strategy to help enterprises modernize via hybrid cloud and DevOps-driven cultural change. He has led large datacenter exits, Kubernetes and CI/CD transformations, and advised C‑suite leaders at Google on how generative AI and cloud-native patterns reshape every business unit. As an entrepreneurial builder he also ran a global, click‑scale software company that automated hiring and training for distributed teams, proving his ability to operationalize people and process as well as technology. Hands-on across infrastructure and application layers, he has shipped production automation for certificate deployment and HAProxy integration and designed petabyte-scale data processing systems. Known for marrying technical rigor with organizational design, he accelerates modernization by training teams, establishing repeatable patterns, and delivering systems that auto-scale and self-heal. Based in Houston, he holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA focused on entrepreneurship.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations at Northwest Nazarene University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
haproxy10
deployment-automation10
ssl9
acme9
bash9
openssl9
curl9
api-client8
jenkins6
maven6
x509certificates6
web-deployment6
jenkins-pipeline6
lamp6
ssl-certificate6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
acmesh-official/acme.sh
May 2018 - May 2018
A pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 18 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions primarily revolve around deploying and configuring the `acme.sh` script to work with HAProxy. They implemented a `haproxy_deploy` function that handles certificate concatenation, path handling, and reloading of HAProxy after deployment. They added a reload mechanism and made POSIX compliance updates for shell scripting, demonstrating a focus on automation, deployment, and integration of acme.sh within a production environment.
unixzerosslfreebsdshell-scriptshell
dwatrous/cf-service-broker-python
Nov 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
pythonbrokercloudfoundryservice-brokerpython3
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