Danny Valverde

• Migrated high-cost legacy Platform to custom open-source, reducing licensing overhead by over $5M/year.
• Modernized infrastructure from Waterfall to Agile using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Defined SDLC stages and CI/CD pipelines with automated validation gates.
• Managed infrastructure across 1,100+ hypervisors and 380+ distributed sites.
• Architected site reliability platforms focusing on isolation event sequences and automated recovery.
• Contributed to open-source stability by identifying and patching upstream bugs.
• Engineered a fully PCI-compliant platform using open-source tools.
• Owned unified platform Observability, automating the pipeline from alerting to incident creation.

Stack: Python, Ansible, Docker, Linux (Rocky), MariaDB, Redis, Nova (Libvirt), HAProxy, Vault, GitLab, Bash, Datadog, Foreman.

• Developed custom Fortinet firewall tooling using Python and Jenkins for PCI enforcement.
• Conducted internal audits and provided automated PCI evidence collection.
• Mentored junior engineers and interns, providing technical oversight.

• Designed and deployed a disaster recovery (DR) site for seamless failover.
• Automated security hardening via PowerShell/PowerCLI, increasing compliance from 60% to 98%.
• Served as Technical Lead for enterprise-wide infrastructure enhancements.

Manage annual budgets and coordinate large-scale neighborhood functions (07/2021 - Present).