Hey, I'm Daniel

Platform Engineer | Systems Architect | SRE | Linux Evangelist

Self-motivated, passionate, and incredibly curious automator with 30 years of full-stack software engineering and 22+ years of infrastructure/systems engineering experience. I am constantly growing, evolving, and improving. My curiosity and innovation thrive on the cutting edge, but my seasoned experience anchors my solutions to the boringly-stable.

What I Bring

I bring three decades of cross-domain expertise spanning the entire software engineering ecosystem—from low-level systems programming and infrastructure automation to application development and enterprise architecture. This breadth enables me to identify solutions and optimize systems in ways that specialists confined to a single domain cannot.

I thrive in high-pace, rapidly evolving environments that require continual learning and absorbing large amounts of information. I really enjoy identifying abstract connections, which has served me well in time-sensitive, high-pressure situations where understanding the underlying root cause quickly can mean the difference between a minor incident and a major outage.

My Greatest Strength

I have an insatiable drive to solve complex challenges. My greatest strength is not merely my current knowledge or prior experience, but my ability to quickly grasp new concepts and learn anything by diving into the deep end and mucking around, and then bringing order out of chaos. I come alive when given the opportunity to automate mundane, repetitive tasks and thrive in continually evolving environments or with frequent change.

In my experience, in order to truly know what a tool does well, you must first understand what it does not do well.

Quick Stats

Core Competencies

• Kubernetes - Container orchestration at scale
• Docker - Containerization and microservices
• AWS - Cloud architecture and services
• Linux - Systems administration and automation
• PostgreSQL - Database management and optimization
• Terraform - Infrastructure as Code
• GitLab CI/CD - DevOps pipelines and automation
• Prometheus & Grafana - Observability and monitoring

Get in Touch

• GitHub - Where I share my work
• LinkedIn - Let's connect
• Email - Say hello
• bodnar.sh - My portfolio site

Explore More

• About Me - Full professional profile
• Experience - Detailed work history
• Skills - Technical expertise breakdown
• Resume - Downloadable CV
• Tech Stacks - My preferred tools and technologies