Daniel McAvinue

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Work Experience

Verana Health

Senior Devops Engineer

Jan 2026 – Present Boston, MA
  • Merged with previous employer COTA Healthcare under Verana Health assuming similar responsibilities.
  • Architecting and executing the migration of newly merged company infrastructure from GCP to AWS, ensuring robust security standards and zero downtime.
  • Defining and driving the infrastructure and platform strategy for the newly merged entity, aligning roadmaps to maximize business impact.
  • Guiding architecture decisions, and modeling high standards for reliability, security, and maintainability.

COTA Healthcare

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Oct 2021 – Jan 2026 Boston, MA
  • Architected and maintained Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform across AWS and GCP, embedding security best practices directly into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Managed and secured multiple Kubernetes clusters, focusing on cluster hardening, role-based access control (RBAC), network policies, and container vulnerability management.
  • Continuous security and compliance initiatives in a highly regulated healthcare environment, ensuring infrastructure met strict HIPAA requirements.
  • Owned the observability and monitoring strategy across the platform, defining SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets using metrics, logging, and tracing.
  • Implemented secure networking, identity, and access management (IAM) patterns to reduce the blast radius of infrastructure deployments.

Wayfair

Systems Engineer • Projects Team Manager • Cloud Engineer

Jul 2011 – Jan 2014 Ireland, UK, Boston
  • Engineered and maintained Infrastructure-as-Code for massive-scale hybrid environments (On-Premise and GCP).
  • Developed internal developer platforms, SDKs, and custom Terraform providers to enable engineering teams to self-service infrastructure safely and efficiently.
  • Built extensive tooling and automation (utilizing Python/Bash) to streamline CI/CD workflows, creating faster feedback loops for developers.
  • Led the design and rollout of cost estimation tooling across hybrid cloud environments, optimizing resource usage and cloud spend.
  • Managed a team of 9x IT Engineers based in Boston
  • Tech Resource for all European Offices based in London, Galway and Berlin.
  • Managed a team of IT Engineers/Projects Team.
  • Responsible for OS/Application Deployment for all Offices.

Active Technology Ltd

IT Consultant • Technician

Jul 2009 – Jul 2011 Clare, Ireland
  • Handled the IT side of CCTV, Intruder Alarms and Access Control Systems installs.
  • Provided general IT consultancy and Support for customer-based systems.

University of Limerick

Postgraduate Researcher

Oct 2008 – Jul 2009 Limerick, Ireland
  • Worked as part of a small research team developing an interactive tutoring environment for use in primary school education.
  • Investigating modern techniques for the use of interpretation of spoken statements into a query that can be processed and responded to by a computer.
  • The simplest way to describe the goal is a very simple Google Assistant/Amazon Alexa for education before it was so readily available.

Skills & Technologies

Personal Projects

  • IAC Managed AWS Organization: Using terraform/sops to provision and manage AWS Organizations, SCPs, Groups, and Organizations policies.
  • Observability at Home: Setting up grafana, loki, vector, prometheus and alertmanager at home in a minimilized format to monitor/alert on all things home lab.
  • Local AI: Playing with local AI for home automation purposes using a Strix Halo node with 128GB unified memory, managed by kubernetes/gitops/flux.
  • Talos PI K8S Cluster: Talos based Kubernetes cluster at home running as minimally as possible on some raspberry pis, managed with Flux, GitOps.
  • Kubernetes at Home: Kubernetes cluster at home to handle home automation, managed with Flux, GitOps.
  • NIX Development Environments: Centralized NIX Development Environments to share across projects.
  • Playing with Hashistack: Setting up Consul/Vault/Nomad in a dance-off versus the k8s@home setup.
  • Unity3D Floorplan, MQTT & you: Render your home floorplan in 3D, real time monitor and visualize events.
  • Utility Monitoring: Passively tracking Utility metrics via an SDR and ESP32.

GitHub Activity