Dan Pilch

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4 November 2023

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by Dan Pilch

Dan Pilch CV

Location: United Kingdom (British Citizen) | GitHub: danpilch

Summary

I am a seasoned professional engineer with over a decade of experience in architecture and managing distributed, scalable software systems. My passion for building has led me to excel in a diverse range of roles, including platform engineering, infrastructure design, software development, systems administration, SRE, and team leadership. My extensive background includes work in the Finance, Anti-Piracy, and Marketing sectors, spanning both startup and enterprise environments. I am dedicated to fostering remote-first engineering cultures and have a track record of proficiency working remotely.

I am currently the lead engineer of infrastructure and platform for community.com working as both a leader, manager and individual contributor.

Skills

People and soft skills: People management, engineering lead, constructive communication, feedback and presentation

Cloud and Data centre: AWS, OVH, Hetzner, GCP

Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Alpine, Debian

Vendor Services: AppSignal, NewRelic, Sumo Logic, PlanetScale, Aiven, Okta, Cloudflare, PagerDuty, Twilio

Programming Languages: Golang, Python, Elixir, Ruby

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Vagrant

Database Technologies: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Athena, DynamoDB, Trino, Athena, Databricks

Security: Okta, OpenVPN, Tailscale

Miscellaneous: Grafana, Prometheus, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Docker, Concourse, Envoy, Kong, HAProxy, Temporal, Benthos, Nginx

This list is non-exhaustive.

Certifications

Experience

Community.com - Staff Systems Engineer

September 2020 - Present

Nomura Investment Bank - VP Cloud Infrastructure

May 2020 - August 2020

Westpac New Zealand - DevOps/Data Engineering

December 2018 – November 2019

Bitcoin Australia - DevOps Engineer Consultant

November 2017 – October 2018

Sharpe Capital - Cloud & Security Architect

October 2017 – May 2018

PPL UK - DevOps Engineer Consultant

July 2016 – October 2017

Incopro - Lead DevOps Engineer

May 2013 – July 2016

Warner Bros - Anti-Piracy

September 2011 – September 2012

Education

University of Portsmouth - BEng (Hons) Degree in Computer Network Management & Design (1st Class)

Personal

Outside of work, I enjoy exercise, playing guitar, travel, and spending time with my wife Laura and Golden Retriever Lily.

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