About Daniel
I am an accomplished problem solver and strategic leader with over 25 years of high-level experience, specializing in navigating high-stakes technical challenges and providing the strategic direction needed to lead large-scale transformations and innovations.
My career has been defined by a constant evolution, moving from traditional network engineering and design to the forefront of cloud-native automated ecosystems. For over 25 years, I’ve worked with global teams to simplify and improve complex IT environments. I specialize in DevOps and infrastructure design, but my real focus is on the human impact of technology: creating well-engineered, automated systems that free up organizations to innovate, excel and push forward. I prioritize quality and cost-efficiency, ensuring that every architectural decision serves a clear business purpose.
My core philosophy is simple: automation is the key to scalable success.
English
Native or bilingual
Swedish
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Fluent
Catalan
Conversational
German
Basic
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- ClarivatePrincipal DevOps EngineerOctober 2024 - Today (1 year and 8 months)Barcelona, SpainPrincipal DevOps Engineer following (mostly) agile methodology. Working on performance optimised, scalable, high-availability, cost-efficient and secure (microservice based) application architectures, cloud services, CI/CD pipeline design and cloud deploy automation solutions. Supporting development teams and the rest of the organisation with years of accumulated and infallible wisdom™️ 😉
- ClarivateSenior/Lead DevOps EngineerJanuary 2019 - October 2024 (5 years and 9 months)Barcelona, SpainSenior Lead DevOps Engineer following (mostly) agile methodology. Working on performance optimised, scalable, high-availability, cost-efficient and secure (microservice based) application architectures, cloud services, CI/CD pipeline design and cloud deploy automation solutions. Supporting developmentteams and the rest of the organisation with years of accumulated and infallible wisdom™️• AWS• Linux• Containers• Artificial Intelligence (LLMs)• Terraform (IaC)• Jenkins• GitHub Actions (Workflows)• Observability (Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry)• Spinnaker• Elasticsearch• Container Orchestration (Docker, ECS/Fargate, EKS/K8s)• Security (DevSecOps) + Code Quality Analysis (SonarQube, CodeQL, Lacework, JFrog Xray etc)• Atlassian JIRA/Confluence/Bitbucket• JFrog Artifactory/Xray• Gradle/Maven build tools• Java/JavaScript (Node.js), Python based applications among other such interesting and wonderful things...
- NTT Com Managed ServicesSenior Solution EngineerJuly 2010 - January 2019 (8 years and 6 months)Barcelona, SpainWork and responsibility involving *nix full stack solution design and deployment, proactive scaling and planning as well as system administration, service optimisation, L3 technical support and lead engineer project management. Tutoring and advising junior engineers and colleagues on best practice principles with main responsibilities covering application and service management, root cause analysis, solution design, build/delivery and troubleshooting of fault tolerant business critical cloud and bare metal server systems using change control and orchestration tools such as git, SaltStack and Puppet. Advanced experience with Java Application Servers (JVM) including Tomcat, JBoss AS, WebSphere running applications such as Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket and customer developed apps. Cloud service management including AWS, VMware vSphere suit. Databases; PostgreSQL, MySQL. Web services; Apache, Nginx, Varnish etc
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Education
- DevOps Foundations: Site Reliability Engineering DevSecOps: Building a Secure Continuous Delivery Pipeline Security Green Belt - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security Green Belt - Terraform Security Yellow Belt - PCI DSS ComplianceDevOps Foundations: Site Reliability Engineering DevSecOps: Building a Secure Continuous Delivery Pipeline Security Green Belt - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security Green Belt - Terraform Security Yellow Belt - PCI DSS Compliance
- AS/400 system management, RPG programming, object oriented system developmentSemcon Education1999AS/400 system management, RPG programming, object oriented system development