Daniel Foley

About Daniel Foley

As a Platform Architect in the Fintech space, I specialize in building scalable, resilient, and automated platforms that empower teams to innovate with confidence. With deep expertise across Linux, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, Python, and Ansible, I’m passionate about designing infrastructure solutions that strike the balance between performance, security, and developer productivity.Throughout my career, I’ve focused on driving automation and operational excellence—helping organizations simplify complexity and accelerate delivery. A highlight has been presenting multiple sessions at Red Hat Summit, where I shared insights on Kubernetes and OpenShift with global audiences. These experiences reinforced my belief in the power of knowledge-sharing and community to move technology forward.Colleagues know me as approachable, collaborative, and curious—I enjoy tackling complex technical challenges while mentoring others and making technology more accessible. I thrive at the intersection of architecture, strategy, and hands-on engineering, always seeking opportunities to build systems that scale with business needs.Outside of work, you’ll usually find me exploring new technologies, contributing to open discussions in the container and cloud-native space, or refining automation practices that make life easier for both developers and operators.

Experience

1. Platform Architect

   Ally

   Sep 2020 — Present · Flagstaff, AZ, US

   Manage and mentor a team of 10+ engineers, providing technical direction, performance guidance, and career development- Lead design and implementation of enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms, supporting mission-critical workloads- Architected highly available, ephemeral, and immutable compute environments with automated self-healing- Spearheaded migration of thousands of VMs from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt), cutting infrastructure costs- Partnered with networking, storage, and compute teams to ensure seamless platform integration- Established TLS 1.3 and full data-at-rest encryption for compliance-driven environments- Presented “Migrating thousands of virtual machines to Openshift Virtualization” at Red Hat Summit 2024- Key Impact: Reduced infrastructure costs and improved developer agility with self-service automation.

Skills

• Troubleshooting
• Linux
• Operating Systems
• Openshift
• Servers
• Iscsi
• Storage
• Php
• Virtualization
• Hardware
• Apache
• Vmware
• C#
• Mysql
• Html
• Security
• Docker
• Windows