Daniel Bodnar

SRE / Infrastructure Engineer / Solutions Architect / Linux Evangelist

Highly motivated, driven, and completely self-taught engineer with 27+ years experience as a full-stack software developer (since 1996) and over 18 years of Platform/Infrastructure engineering and IT automation. Interested in growth opportunities related to low-level Linux, networking, embedded development, and optimizations empowered by FPGA and programmable hardware.

[email protected]
(260) 348-8789
Denton, Texas
bodnar.sh

Work Experience

Principal Software, DevOps, and Cloud Engineer

2023 - 2025

Fidelity Investments

  • Architected comprehensive AWS solutions for enterprise applications, including designing secure networking topologies and multi-account strategies
  • Developed and implemented robust IAM policies and CloudFormation templates adhering to strict financial industry security standards
  • Designed and built a full AWS CDK platform enabling teams to rapidly deploy standardized, compliant infrastructure
  • Engineered Kubernetes-based deployment solutions leveraging EKS, Helm charts, and custom operators for application management
  • Rebuilt and optimized the Jenkins Core platform, increasing build efficiency and reducing pipeline execution times
  • Created a cloud orchestration CLI tool that simplified cross-account resource management and deployment workflows

Founder, Cloud Architect, CIO

2021 - Present

BitBuilder Cloud, LLC

  • Launched a web hosting and cloud consulting private SaaS company using 5 highly customized AMD & Dell based co-located servers
  • Containerized and load-balanced several high-profile organizations with 1M+ global visitors/day
  • Single-handedly built core services on co-located custom bare metal 3rd-gen AMD-based servers with over 2TB RAM, 320 cores, 64TB enterprise-grade NVMe storage
  • Orchestrated global scaling via a multi-cloud hybrid overlay layer based on custom k8s distribution and buildroot and WolfiOS immutable linux operating systems

SRE, SysAdmin, and Platforms Engineer

2019 - 2021

RSVP & ACT, Inc

  • Managed and performance-tuned +3.5TB postgresql database cluster, MySql and SQLite databases
  • Architected, deployed, and managed dynamically scaling, secure, and fully version-controlled hybrid and bare-metal kubernetes clusters
  • Deployed and managed self-hosted gitlab instance with DevOps build pipelines and automatic blue-green deployments
  • Implemented monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and observability tools

IT Director

2018 - 2019

Perspectives.org

  • Developed 5 year vision, roadmap, and project plan to rebuild legacy monolithic .NET 3.5 application
  • Increased cloud hosting capacity by 10x while reducing budget by 50%
  • Reduced minimum page load time from 5 sec to an avg of 0.8s
  • Built a DRM-secured offline-enabled streaming video player desktop app in Go

Professional Application Developer

2014 - 2017

AT&T Corp.

  • Full stack application engineer building custom web-based tools and services
  • Managed entire project pipeline, from requirements gathering to production deployment
  • Led team-wide migration from rails/mysql stack to node.js, angular.js, and mongodb
  • Engineered a docker-based devops and deployment pipeline
  • Architected and built a large-scale external "Order Status" application and a decoupled "microservice" pipeline

Education & Background

Self-Taught Engineer

1996 - Present

Completely Self-Taught

27+ years of continuous learning and hands-on experience as a full-stack software developer and Platform/Infrastructure engineer. Expertise gained through practical application, experimentation, and staying current with emerging technologies.

Areas of Interest

Low-level Linux & Embedded Development

Deep interest in kernel-level optimizations, embedded systems, and hardware programming

Embedded Development FPGA Programmable Hardware

Distributed Systems Architecture

Passion for designing and building scalable, resilient distributed systems

Microservices Event-Driven Architecture Service Mesh

Innovation & Emerging Technologies

Early adopter focused on cutting-edge technologies and optimization techniques

Early Technology Adoption System Optimization Performance Engineering

Skills

Linux Ecosystem & Platform Engineering

Containerization & Kubernetes

AWS Cloud Architecture & CDK

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible)

Rust & Systems Programming

JavaScript/TypeScript & Node.js

Vue.js/Nuxt.js & Frontend Frameworks

Database Systems (PostgreSQL/SQLite/MongoDB)

Network Engineering & Security

Monitoring & Observability (Grafana/Prometheus)

DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines

Core Competencies

Infrastructure Architecture

Enterprise-grade platform design

Cloud Engineering

AWS, multi-cloud strategies

Container Orchestration

Kubernetes, Docker, custom distributions

Languages

English Native

Recognition

Self-Taught Excellence

27+ Years of Independent Learning

Industry Leadership

Platform Engineering & Infrastructure