Daniel Bodnar

Returned to the veterinary practice-management codebase post-Patterson acquisition to build the next-generation SRE / observability spine and AI-agent platform on top of 200+ repos of legacy and modern services.

• ▸Built `act-infra` — a systemd-v260+/Arch-Linux PKGBUILD-based IaC system where every deployment format (sysext, confext, portable services, nspawn, vmspawn, Quadlet, OCI, ISO) is a projection of the same PKGBUILD source; composition via dependency graph, pacman as the merger
• ▸Stood up the SRE / observability spine: PostgreSQL + TimescaleDB + Netdata + Telegraf + Cloudflare exporter, with Grafana stack (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Alloy, Beyla eBPF auto-instrumentation) provisioned as composable PKGBUILDs
• ▸Designed and shipped `zoho-agents` v2.0 — voice-driven Zoho Projects agent that translates Microsoft Teams meeting recordings (Whisper.cpp local transcription, ~12× realtime on CPU) into Zoho issue create / update / comment operations, with three git-checkpoint workflow (cache → plan → apply → verify) for recoverable AI-driven writes
• ▸Architected meta-package composition pattern: a single `pacman -Syu act-machine-pve01` brings up an entire hypervisor host with the full transitive observability + role + base graph
• ▸Built developer-documentation effort (`devdocs`) and platform-engineering Makefile-driven workflows that consolidate the 200+ repo footprint into a coherent platform layer
• ▸Recent additions: `pattersonpay.com`, `ai-agents-lab` for cross-team AI experimentation, and a new SRE-ops deployment pipeline shipped May 2026

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
• ▸Built BitBuilder Cloud's bare-metal foundation: fully-redundant hypervisor cluster across two datacenters — 320 cores, 1.25 TB RAM, 60 TB enterprise NVMe (30 GiB/s read, 27 GiB/s write), 100 Gbps inter-server, hybrid overlay scaling across AWS / GCP / DO / Vultr
• ▸Designed BitBuilder Hypervisor — git-ops multi-tenant hypervisor on the modern systemd virt stack (vmspawn, nspawn, sysext/confext, networkd, BLS, UKI, DDI). Implements UAPI Group specs end-to-end
• ▸Built bbctl — Rust CLI + Ratatui TUI for provisioning private cloud on VyOS v1.5 + Proxmox bare-metal: L3VPN with EVPN, VXLAN overlay, VRF tenant isolation, WireGuard mgmt plane
• ▸Shipped cloudx.sh — visit cloudx.sh/github.com/owner/repo for an instant Cloudflare-Sandbox AI dev environment (OpenCode + Claude). Five production custom domains
• ▸Multi-cloud hybrid overlay layer based on custom Kubernetes distribution and immutable Linux (Wolfi/Garden Linux base)
• ▸Comprehensive observability stack: Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, NetData, Jaeger
• ▸Manage consulting accounts (Neal & Neal Insurance, Maybach Systems): infra architecture, security, incident mitigation

Multi-engagement consulting relationship with Apollo Inc — first as the cloud-migration architect for international NGO Thru The Bible (BitBuilder Cloud's first customer), then for an AI-powered architectural-blueprint converter.

• ▸Single-handed end-to-end cloud migration of TTB.org's entire Pasadena, CA office — servers, networking, backups, VMware ESXi hypervisors, Windows Active Directory domain, NAS devices, workstations — and three external cloud platforms (GreenCloud, IONOS, Ascendio); office shut down and sold post-migration
• ▸Saved TTB over **$58,380/year** by trimming costs, consolidating cloud infrastructure, and renegotiating service contracts; CPU/RAM resources doubled or tripled in the process
• ▸Architected comprehensive point-in-time snapshot backups of every server, hypervisor, database, and service (incl. WatchGuard firewall config, AD/DHCP/Plesk exports, Acronis archive) for safe handover from the incumbent MSP
• ▸Migrated TTB onto BitBuilder Cloud (its first customer) — Apollo Cloud was the customer-facing brand for the engagement
• ▸Identified and remediated ransomware, Remote Access Trojans, and other malware from multiple workstations and the ttb.org website itself
• ▸Migrated TTB01 (Domain Controller + Network Shares), Accounting workstation, PBSendServer, TTB-Warehouse, Firewall + VPN Server; consolidated three external cloud platforms onto Apollo Cloud; migrated DNS from 1&1.com to Cloudflare
• ▸Direct executive-stakeholder + shareholder communication; signed multi-year Support & Maintenance Agreement with 2023 amendments
• ▸(Dec 2025 – Present) Built `bim-mep-ifc-agent` — AI-powered Blueprint→IFC 4.3 converter for MEP (Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing) quantity takeoff and cost estimation, using Claude Opus 4.5 vision + Claude Agent SDK 0.1.76; BIM-tool interoperable (Autodesk Revit, BIM 360)

Consulting engagement modernizing a multi-app, multi-database production system — designed Cloudflare migration plan, new Arch+ZFS+systemd-homed production server, systemd-native containerization (alternative to Docker), and an AI-agent / slash-command toolchain for the team.

• ▸Authored ~26K-word Cloudflare migration epic — the planned architectural transition from OVH bare-metal Docker to Cloudflare Workers / D1 / R2 / KV across multiple apps and a shared MySQL database
• ▸Architected the new production server (`maybach-prod-01`) on Arch Linux + ZFS + systemd-homed + WireGuard, replacing the legacy Docker host
• ▸Built systemd-native containerization tooling as a Docker alternative: portable services generator, Quadlet unit-file generator, and vmspawn-based VM-isolation generator
• ▸Engineered AI integration via Cloudflare Workers AI + Vectorize, with custom WorkersAI / Vectorize / DocumentAnalysis services and an AI agent controller
• ▸Built a 9-agent SDK (php-engineer, typescript-engineer, database-specialist, cloudflare-workers, cloudflare-services, documentation-generator, systemd-machines, chainguard-images, cloud-native-sysadmin) plus 7 custom slash commands so other contributors can leverage the platform without learning every layer
• ▸E2E testing infrastructure with Stagehand AI + Director.ai; Laravel Dusk parallelization; security pipeline hardening (secret scanning, secret rotation, container security)
• ▸Built `maybach-dba-agent` (DBA agent CLI) and authored YARA rules for forensic analysis; time-tracked billable consulting via CSV-based session reporting

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.