# Daniel Christopher

Daniel Christopher is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Telus, based in Canada.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@danielchristopher

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Telus who refactored payment and fraud platforms into Kubernetes microservices, achieving 99.99% uptime.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Canada |
| Authorized to work in | Canada |
| Salary expectations | 65k+ USD |
| Job categories | Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer |
| Skills | Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, Amazon EKS, Terraform, CI CD, GitOps, Incident Response, Observability, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Datadog |

## About

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At Telus, I refactored legacy payment and fraud detection platforms into Kubernetes microservices, helping achieve 99.99% uptime across critical production systems. I also owned production reliability for AWS workloads running on EKS, EC2, Lambda, and RDS.

I built highly available CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, and ArgoCD-based GitOps, reducing deployment failures by 40%. My work also included operational readiness reviews, SLI and SLO frameworks, and disaster recovery exercises.

At BMW, I automated infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD deployments, and supported containerized healthcare applications. I built data pipelines for clinical data and helped maintain 99.9% availability for patient analytics microservices.

Earlier, at Accenture, I worked on cloud migrations and automation across Azure, AWS, and GCP. I migrated data warehouse workloads to BigQuery and Hadoop and Spark workloads to Dataproc, and built infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD workflows.
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## Experience

### Senior Site Reliability Engineer (current)

[Telus](https://himalayas.app/companies/telus). Nov 2024 - Present

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Engineered highly available CI/CD pipelines and led operational readiness reviews for large-scale distributed systems. Built AI-assisted operational automation and observability platforms to improve reliability and reduce MTTR.
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Skills: GitHub-Actions, AWS-CodePipeline, ArgoCD, GKE, Amazon-EKS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Python, Kubernetes, Kafka, Confluent, Azure-Data-Factory, Azure-Databricks, BigQuery, GCP-Dataflow, AWS-Lambda, AWS-Sagemaker, Kubeflow, Azure-DevOps, azure-monitor, KQL, IAM, Secrets-Manager, KMS, Azure-Key-Vault, Azure-AD, Azure-RBAC, Docker, Helm, Rancher, RKE2, GitOps, SLIs-SLO-SLAs, SLOs, Error-Budgets, Incident-Response, Disaster-Recovery, Capacity-Planning, Performance-Optimization, AutoScaling, HPA, KEDA, Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, AWS-DMS, Azure-Synapse, Power-BI, SSL-TLS, Kerberos, RBAC

### DevOps Engineer

BMW. Mar 2021 - Nov 2024

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Automated infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipelines, managed containerized workloads on Kubernetes, and built observability frameworks to ensure high availability and reliability.
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Skills: Go, SUSE-Linux, Azure-DevOps, GitHub-Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon-EKS, AKS, GKE, Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudwatch, AWS-Glue, Kinesis, AWS-Data-Pipeline, Nagios, AWS-X-Ray, Puppet, Ansible, PostgreSQL, Amazon-RDS, Amazon-Aurora, AWS-Secrets-Manager, AWS-KMS, Nexus, Route-53, Bitbucket, Azure-Service-Bus, Apache-HTTP-Server, ELB, AutoScaling, GCP-Artifact-Registry, ELK-Stack, BASH, Python, Azure-Event-Hubs, Azure-Functions, GCP, Cloud-Functions, Azure-Synapse, Power-BI, BigQuery

### Junior DevOps Engineer

[Accenture](https://himalayas.app/companies/accenture). Jul 2018 - Feb 2021

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Migrated on-premises applications to Azure and GCP, automated infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, and managed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker.
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Skills: Azure, Arm, Azure-Automation, PowerShell, Azure-AD, ADFS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Python, BASH, AWS, GCP, BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud-Storage, Dataflow, Cloud-Composer, Cloud-SQL, IAM, Secrets-Manager, KMS, GCP-VPC-Service-Controls, Azure-Key-Vault, Azure-Data-Factory, Azure-Databricks, Azure-SQL, Azure-DevOps, Octopus-Deploy, AWS-Glue, AWS-Lambda, Redshift, Amazon-EKS, Cloudwatch, AWS-Lake-Formation, AWS-Cost-Explorer, Trusted-Advisor, Savings-Plans, Reserved-Instances-Optimization, AWS-Backup, Cross-Region-Replication, Multi-AZ, S3, EC2, EBS, EFS, VMWare, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows-Server

## Education

### Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad

Bachelor's, Computer Science

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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, completed in March 2018.
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## Tech stack

- Amazon Redshift
- Splunk
- AWS Glue
- AWS IAM
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon S3
- Google Cloud Storage
- Bitbucket
- Azure Repos
- SonarQube
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Amazon EKS
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS CodePipeline
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Azure Pipelines
- AWS CodeBuild
- PySpark
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Amazon Route 53
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Azure DevOps
- Python
- Go
- PowerShell
- Kubeflow
- Azure Service Bus
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
- Amazon GuardDuty
- Nagios
- Azure Monitor
- Amazon DynamoDB
- CentOS
- Linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Windows Server
- Datadog
- AppDynamics
- AWS X-Ray
- Google Cloud Dataflow
- Amazon Kinesis
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Ansible
- Puppet
- AWS Lambda
- Azure Functions
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Aurora
- Google Cloud SQL
- Docker
- VMware vSphere
- Apache Tomcat
- Apache HTTP Server
- AWS Backup
- Google BigQuery
- Amazon Athena
- SQL
- VMware ESXi
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Google Cloud Dataproc
- AWS KMS
- LangChain
- Confluent Platform
- ArgoCD
- Bash
- Apache Kafka
- AWS

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