Hi, I'm Daniel Rodriguez
DevOps Engineer based in Los Angeles, USA
About Me
Skilled Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in cloud system administration, configuration management, CI/CD, and keeping software systems running smoothly. Comfortable working with a variety of platforms and always up-to-date with the latest development tools and methods. Great at handling projects solo and love being part of a team that gets things done efficiently.
My journey in tech started back in 2008 when I joined Western Dental as an IT Help Desk technician. Since then, I've grown through various roles - from CloudTech Support to Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, and now DevOps Engineer at Codecademy.
I'm passionate about automation, infrastructure as code, and building reliable systems that scale. When I'm not working on cloud infrastructure or debugging production issues, I enjoy exploring new technologies and contributing to the DevOps community.
By the Numbers
What I Do
Core Expertise
The technologies and practices I specialize in
AWS, CloudFlare, Google Cloud Platform
Terraform, AWS CDK
Puppet, Ansible
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS
DataDog, Panopta, Grafana, Prometheus
What I Bring to the Table
With over 17 years in the industry, I've developed a strong foundation in building and maintaining reliable infrastructure at scale.
Cloud Infrastructure
Deep expertise in AWS services including EKS, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation. Experience with multi-cloud environments and CloudFlare.
Automation & CI/CD
Building robust deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and CircleCI. Infrastructure automation with Terraform and Ansible.
Reliability & Monitoring
Implementing observability solutions with DataDog, Grafana, and Prometheus. On-call experience and incident response expertise.
My Work
Projects
Open source projects and tools I maintain
A Go-based CLI tool to manage and monitor AWS EKS clusters and nodegroups with health checks, fast list/describe operations, and smart scaling.
Personal Nix configuration for macOS using nix-darwin and Home Manager. Provides a declarative way to manage system and user-level configurations with a modular structure.