Dan Ehrlich

About Dan Ehrlich

Power user of Claude Code with deep familiarity across its full feature set including hooks, MCP servers, skills, CLAUDE.md, multi-agent stuff, etc. Know the internals including the harness, context window management, prompt caching, and permission models. equivalent knowledge of Gemini and Codex CLI. Very experienced with functionality of AI-native IDEs including Cursor, Windsurf, Kiro, etc. Know how to effectively leverage agentic coding tools and comfortable evaluating and integrating new AI tooling as the space - Expert in most services across AWS & GCP with strong equivalent background in Azure. Experienced with serverless architectures, strong in cloud networking, and very deep focus on IAM security hardening. Also cloud security posture management with Wiz. Significant cost optimization (100k/month+) using AWS Cost Explorerer, Pump, and Infracost. K8S - Expert at Kubernetes and the various cloud EKS/AKS/GKE deployments. Helm charts, K8S CRDs / Operators. Experienced with various service meshs, Karpenter for node autoscaling, and GitOps workflows for cluster management. Strong understanding of the control plane, etcd, scheduler internals, and custom admission webhooks using OPA Gatekeeper and Kyverno. Familiar with multi-cluster strategies, eBPF-based networking with Cilium, etc.CI/CD - Designing and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Jenkins. Also Flyte for MLOps pipelines. Implementing policy-as-code guardrails with OPA and automated security scanning (Trivy, Snyk) within pipeline stages. Many other tools.Logging and Monitoring - Strong background in observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Loki, and ELK Stack to proactively detect and troubleshoot issues in real-time. Building SLO-driven alerting, distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, and centralized log aggregation across multi-region deployments. Experience with incident management workflows and runbook automation.Software Engineering - Developing scripts and microservices in Python, Node, and Bash. Also IaC using Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation. Proficient with event-driven architecturesusing SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and Kafka. API design (REST, GraphQL), automated testing strategies, and managing mono-repos with Turborepo or Nx.

Experience

1. Staff Devsecops Engineer

   Striveworks

   Aug 2022 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   ML / Data Ops Pipelines. DevOps infrastructure to support K8S, IaC, and CI / CD pipelines. Significant use of AWS and GCP. CVE remediation and platform hardening. Python, Golang, Terraform, Helm.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Bachelor's degree, Psychology / Computer Science

Skills

• Systems Engineering
• Testing
• Integration
• Engineering Management
• Program Management
• Requirements Management
• Earned Value Management
• Configuration Management
• Aerospace
• System Design
• Security Clearance
• Requirements Analysis
• Technical Writing
• Engineering
• Process Improvement
• Process Engineering
• Linux
• Business Analysis
• Software Engineering
• Simulation
• Quality Management
• Computer Hardware
• Computer Security
• Numismatics
• Astrophysics
• Mathematics
• Cosmology
• Quantum Theory
• Options Strategies
• Portfolio Optimization
• Stock Trading
• Probability
• General Relativity
• Modding
• Photoshop
• Photography
• Videography
• Consumer Electronics
• Locksmithing
• Home Automation