Daniel Emord

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About Daniel Emord

Staff Platform/DevOps engineer building paved paths on Kubernetes and AWS. I design and run EKS platforms across multi-account environments, productizing the developer experience with GitOps, Crossplane abstractions, and Helm tooling. My work reduces time-to-prod, improves reliability with SLOs and policy guardrails (Kyverno/IAM), and lowers infra cost with Karpenter + right-sizing. I’ve led migrations using GitHub Actions with ARC, simplified conversions from EC2 to EKS with Octopus, and closed security gaps at scale. I love turning complex infra into simple, documented paths teams can use on day one. Core: AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Karpenter, Crossplane, Terraform/Terraform Cloud, Kyverno, Flux/Argo, GitHub Actions/ARC, Ansible, Datadog, Prometheus, Cloudflare, Python/C#/Go/Bash. I’m always open to connecting with colleagues, managers, or other IT professionals – feel free to contact me!