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Daniel Jay Haskin

Just call me Dan.

(There is no 's' at the end of my name, not "Daniel Haskins", but "Daniel Haskin" :)

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My name is Dan Haskin. I live in Highland, Utah with my loving wife and four beautiful children. I am a passionate DevOps Engineer. I am excellent at bringing order from chaos. I am handy during and after an outage. Whatever it is, I can learn it and teach others about it.

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I'm a vim addict. I use vim keybindings everywhere. Sway Window Manager, Zathura PDF viewer, IMV, Qutebrowser, tmux, TUIs for chat, the whole nine yards.

• Editor: NeoVim
• Shell: PowerShell (Windows), Bash (Linux)
• Terminal: ConEMU (Windows), tmux (Linux)
• Browser: Qutebrowser
• Infrastructure As Code: Ansible
• Programming Language (work): Python or Golang
• Programming Language (hobby): Common Lisp
• Knitting Needles: HiyaHiya

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• IRC: I'm skin on libera.chat (chat any time, I use a bouncer)
• SourceHut: skin
• Discord: djha.skin
• GitHub: djhaskin987
• LinkedIn: Daniel Jay Haskin
• Ravelry: scruffmcgruff
• Blog: https://blog.djhaskin.com

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Skills Summary:

• AWS: EKS, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ECS, EC2, IAM, RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFormation.
• Infrastructure as Code: Ansible, Terraform, CFT, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef.
• Build Systems: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab, TeamCity, Hudson.
• Build Tools: CMake, MSBuild, Autotools, Maven, Gradle, SCons, Ant, POSIX Make.
• Cloud and Virtualization: Kubernetes, EKS, vSphere ESX, Nutanix, OpenStack.
• Cryptography: x509, Microsoft Authenticode, GPG
• Languages: Python, Ruby, Golang, POSIX Shell (e.g., BASH), C++, C, C#, PowerShell, Java, Perl, PHP.
• Monitoring: DataDog, Nagios, Centreon, Grafana
• Networking: DHCP, DNS, nmap, arp-scan, NAS, NFS, SMB/CIFS
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows.
• Packaging and Installers: DEB, RPM, MSI via WiX
• Version Control: Git, Subversion, Team Foundation Server.
• Virtualization/Containerization: Docker, VMware Workstation, KVM/libvirt, VirtualBox.
• Web Servers: nginx, Apache, IIS, Tomcat

Experience:

DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer

Angel Studios

Nov 1, 2021 - Present

• Implement monitoring and alerting for Kubernetes clusters, using TimescaleDB TOBS, Grafana, and Loki
• Migrate from TimescaleDB, TOBS, Grafana and Loki to using DataDog
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes using ArgoCD, Amazon ECR, and GitHub Actions
• Mentored a DevOps Intern
• Maintain infrastructure as code for Angel, including for CDN, load balancers, Kubernetes, S3 buckets, RDS and Redis instances, and other app needs.
• Helped implement a secondary CloudFlare CDN
• Help with financial decisions around AWS and CloudFlare, including for CDN and EC2 spend.
• Implemented cost-cutting measures around our cloud infrastructure
• Helped migrate parts of our IaC to Ansible
• Assisted in making all major decisions around infrastructure
• Administered DNS for Angel Studios, including marketing email records
• Relevant Skills: Team Planning and Mentoring, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, DataDog, CloudFlare.

Automation Engineer

Verisk Analytics

May 1, 2018 - October 31, 2021

• Designed and implemented a custom Ansible/StackStorm automation suite for provisioning Nutanix VMs
• Wrote a database syncing application that synthesized people resource data from multiple sources
• Helped write a Flask application to host several in-house automations
• Helped mentor a new Python hire
• Wrote various ad-hoc automations for several different departments around the company
• Relevant Technologies: Python, Ansible, StackStorm, AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Oauth2, Flask.

DevOps Engineer

Dish Network

December 10, 2016 - April 30, 2018

• Manage salt states to enable devs and ops to deploy to four environments: dev, qa, beta, and prod
• Manage the Atlassian Bamboo build server and help developer teams set up builds
• Write and Jenkinsfiles and build scripts that packaged salt states as debian packages and install them on the salt masters
• Maintain in-house Django app allowing developers and ops to spin up VMs in an enterprise VMware environment
• Help set up and maintain Jenkins 2.0 CI/CD pipelines deploying to the four Kubernetes clusters for the four environments dev, qa, beta, and prod
• Maintain a HashiCorp Consul cluster in all four environments for use by developers and operations
• Relevant Technologies: SaltStack, Rancher, Kubernetes, Python, Consul, Jenkins, Bamboo.

Release Engineer

StorageCraft Technology Corporation

June 6, 2014 - November 15, 2016

• Write and maintain tools integral to the build system in Python, Golang, POSIX Shell, and PowerShell
• Automate testing our kernel module using Python, allowing us to test one build against over 90 kernels
• Write a JIRA plugin in Java
• Maintain BitBucket server for our git repositories
• Use Git to track build configuration and scripts
• Maintain and help perform releases with developer’s Git repostitories
• Maintain build jobs in Bamboo
• Maintain and use OpenStack on-premise cloud server as part of software builds
• Maintain build agents on Vmware ESX and OpenStack
• Create OpenStack images for use by the QA and Build team using KVM/libvirt tools
• Employ Docker to create infrastructure-independent builds
• Maintain numerous Linux and Windows build agents
• Create & maintain a SaltStack codebase to keep track of build agent configuration
• Maintain custom MSBuild scripts used to package C# applications
• Write and maintain WiX code to generate MSI installers
• Package product for Linux using DEB and RPM installer formats
• Sign Windows MSI installers using Microsoft Authenticode x509 Extended Validation certificate to get them to pass SmartScreen
• Work with GNUPG to sign DEB repositories and RPM installers, and secure and decrypt backups
• Use Grafana to monitor the OpenStack cluster for problems
• Maintain a CMake framework built to help the developers build our software cross-platform
• Work with Maven files to build the JIRA plugin I wrote
• Use DNSmasq to manage DNS records in OpenStack
• Troubleshoot general DHCP, DNS & networking issues using the nmap, arp-scan and nslookup tools
• Maintain NAS that makes build artifacts available via NFS, SMB/CIFS, and HTTP via nginx

Release Manager

DealerSocket, Inc.

April 28, 2014 - June 1, 2014

• Write a deployment tool in C# enabling parallel deployment of the MSSQL database, greatly speeding up deployments
• Help manage versioning and editing code to affect deployments using Team Foundation Server
• Release software to the cloud using TeamCity
• Coordinate with QA & Developer departments around releases of our software to the cloud

DevOps and Build Engineer

Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc.

January 3, 2012 - April 24, 2014

• Write POSIX Shell scripts for each product to completely build the project from code to release tarballs and RPMs, as well as run the unit tests
• Write POSIX Shell scripts included in release tarballs necessary to create RPMs from the release tarball
• Write Python scripts as part of building tools for automated testing
• Help set up and maintain GitLab server for our git repositories
• Maintain Puppet code in Git repositories
• Help manage releases in developer Git and Subversion repositories
• Build and maintain Jenkins/Hudson Continuous Integration Server
• Maintain a KVM server to house the build agents
• Build and linux maintain machines essential to development & build operations
• Set up smoke tests to test our entire production stack using OpenStack and Puppet
• Use puppet to track build agent configuration, and to set up a virtual machine as part of automated smoke testing of our product
• Write and maintain masterless puppet manifests used to capture the configuration of our build servers
• Create a code repository which turns masterless Puppet manifests into standalone RPM packages
• Create RPMs of our software for release to customers
• Sign RPMs using company GPG public key so that they can be consumed by our customers via YUM repositories
• Maintain Autotools and SCons build files used in building our native code projects (C++, C)
• Help maintain gradle build files used in building one of our Groovy code projects
• Help maintain maven build files used in building one of our Groovy code projects
• Maintain auto-indexing nginx server to make build artifacts available
• Ensure our groovy projects work with Tomcat so that they will work out-of-the-box when installed via RPM

Systems Administrator

Life Sciences College at Brigham Young University

July 29, 2009 - December 21, 2011

• Write scripts as part of maintaining servers using BASH and Perl
• Write PHP and JavaScript scripts for a reporting web page
• Develop a web interface for the Life Sciences Cluster in PHP using Symfony framework
• Maintain a PHP web interface for the college’s reverse web proxy
• Track the code base for our web interfaces via Subversion
• Use VMware vSphere to run and administer over 50 servers for use by the department, most of them Linux and some of them Windows
• Set up new Linux servers to meet the needs of the college
• Maintain the Life Sciences Cluster/Supercomputer using Linux technologies such as Perceus
• Set up x509 Client Certificate Authentication for our team monitor using IIS
• Manage Group Policy and Active Directory objects for desktops in the college
• Administer Nagios/Centreon server and respond to problems with department servers
• Maintain various Apache and IIS web servers
• Implement & maintain ProxyARP transparent router
• Implement department network intrusion detection system using Snort and Barnyard
• Troubleshoot general DNS and IP networking issues using dig, arp-scan and nslookup

Volunteering

Representative

Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

November 29, 2006 - December 4, 2008

• Create campaigns at local wards to encourage and support missionary work
• Work with local leaders to help serve their congregations
• Work to establish a presence in the local community
• Work with investigators of the church to prepare them for the commitment of baptism
• Study & teach the gospel of Jesus Christ

Certifications

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

Amazon Web Services

March 11, 2020 - March 11, 2023

• Validation Number: GQ8BGW723N411ZKW

Certificate of Completion, Scrum Essentials

BrainTrust Consulting Group

September 29, 2016

SaltStack Certified Engineer

SaltStack, Inc.

March 4, 2015

• SSC ID: `0x786CED2F`, SSCE number 178

Education

Bachelor's Degree of Science in Computer Science

Brigham Young University

April 24, 2014

• Minors in Math and Logic
• Relevant Courses: Algorithms, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Machine Learning.

Awards

Eagle Scout Award

Boy Scouts of America

July 19, 2005

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