Daniel Bodnar

Founded a vendor-agnostic, E2E-encrypted, highly-available cloud hosting & consulting SaaS for security-first organizations.

• ▸Containerized and load-balanced several high-profile orgs with 1M+ global visitors/day
• ▸Multi-cloud hybrid overlay layer based on custom Kubernetes distribution and immutable Linux systems
• ▸Comprehensive observability stack: Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, NetData, Jaeger
• ▸Manage consulting accounts (Neal & Neal Insurance, Maybach Systems): infra architecture, security, incident mitigation

Designed and built a full AWS CDK platform enabling teams to rapidly deploy standardized, compliant infrastructure.

• ▸Rebuilt and optimized the Jenkins Core platform — increased build efficiency, reduced pipeline times
• ▸Architected AWS solutions for enterprise apps: secure networking topologies, multi-account strategies adhering to financial industry security standards
• ▸Engineered Kubernetes-based deployment solutions: EKS, Helm, custom operators, supporting production apps
• ▸Created a cloud orchestration CLI tool simplifying cross-account resource management — eliminated manual processes
• ▸Implemented IaC across teams, reducing configuration drift and deployment errors
• ▸Designed automated security scanning & compliance checking within CI/CD pipelines
• ▸Led knowledge-sharing sessions and developed documentation to elevate team capabilities

Architected dynamically scaling bare-metal Kubernetes clusters; led migrations from legacy systems.

• ▸Managed and performance-tuned 3.5TB+ PostgreSQL cluster, plus MySQL and SQLite databases
• ▸Mitigated two ransomware attacks within first month — implemented org-wide Wireguard VPN, VLANs, zero-trust access
• ▸Deployed self-hosted GitLab with DevOps pipelines, blue-green deployments, IaC via Terraform/Packer/Ansible
• ▸Consolidated disparate hypervisors into Proxmox cluster on ZFS with 56G InfiniBand FC SAN
• ▸Implemented comprehensive observability (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Jaeger, ELK, Zabbix) to preempt bottlenecks

Led IT for an international non-profit serving 10,000+ students annually across 250+ classes worldwide.

• ▸Increased cloud hosting capacity by 10x while reducing budget by 50%
• ▸Reduced page load times from 5s to 0.8s average
• ▸Developed 5-year roadmap to rebuild legacy monolithic .NET 3.5 app into microservice architecture
• ▸Built a DRM-secured, offline-enabled streaming video player desktop app in Go for unreliable-internet classes
• ▸Led IT team, support department, and India-based development team
• ▸Volunteer (2012-2014): Created LMS from scratch, reduced admin overhead 90%; horizontal-scaling container platform on Docker/Rancher/AWS Spot

Full stack engineer building internal tools and services across the complete project lifecycle.

• ▸Architected large-scale external 'Order Status' app aggregating data from 12+ legacy sources (incl. screen-scraped systems)
• ▸Led team-wide migration from Rails/MySQL to Node.js, Angular.js, MongoDB — significantly reduced prototype dev time
• ▸Engineered Docker-based DevOps pipeline that improved deployment reliability and developer productivity
• ▸Mastered functional programming in JavaScript to build high-performance, parallel-worker pipelines in async language

Owned & operated a computer repair, IT consulting and MSP company with physical storefront — managed 5 employees.

• ▸Provided computer repair, network admin, infrastructure architecture for small businesses (Babes Chicken, Justin Boots, Paddock Farms, DIAB Inc.)
• ▸Virtualized US-based multi-site server infrastructure (~30 bare-metal servers) onto ESXi for international plastics manufacturer DIAB Inc.