Daniel McAvinue

Work Experience

Verana Health Boston, MA	Senior Devops Engineer	Jan 2026 to Present
Merged with COTA Healthcare below All of previous roles including migration of newly merged company infrastructure from GCP to AWS Supporting devops team for new merged company in their AWS infrastructure
COTA Healthcare Boston, MA	Senior Infrastructure Engineer	Oct 2021 to Jan 2026
Maintaining infrastructure via Terraform in GCP and AWS cloud environments Managing multiple Kubernetes (GKE) clusters along with development platform tooling, deployment, service ingress and observability Improving security posture of all infrastructure, ensuring compliances are met and all security vulnerabilities are mitigated Assisting development teams with their day to day and improving developer experience Regular review of security posture to reduce blast radius of infrastructure deployments Monitoring of resource usage relative across all infrastructure to reduce waste and unnecessary billing
Wayfair Boston, MA	Systems Engineer III/IV Cloud Engineer	Jan 2014 to Feb 2021
Developed and Maintained Infrastructure as code for hybrid environments (On-Prem and GCP). Developed and Established cost estimation tooling and processes across private/public cloud environments. Developed custom terraform module and provider tooling/CI for use self-service in IaC deployments. Developed various automations and services to support infrastructure pipeline. Developed tooling and pipeline to enable developers to self-service infrastructure as required.

Wayfair Ireland, UK, Boston	Systems Engineer I/II Projects Team Manager	Jul 2011 to Jan 2014
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 Clare, Ireland	IT Consultant Technician	July 2009 to July 2011
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 Limerick, Ireland	Postgraduate Researcher	Oct 2008 to Jul 2009
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

Languages	Tools	Other
BASH GOLANG HCL JAVA PYTHON	AWS CI/CD CONTAINERS GCP GIT GITHUB GITOPS HELM KUBERNETES OBSERVABILITY PACKER TERRAFORM VAULT	DOCUMENTATION-AS-CODE ESP32 LINUX TAILSCALE TALOS WINDOWS WIREGUARD

Personal Projects

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.
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