Daniel Wolf

Director of Engineering

Denver, Colorado, United States22 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building and leading high-performance teams.
Proven track record in cloud engineering and security compliance.
Strong advocate for Agile methodologies and continuous improvement.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering expert with a focus on security and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud EngineeringSecurityNetwork EngineeringAgile MethodologiesCloud ServicesAgileSoftware Configuration ManagementQuality Assurance

Other Skills

DevOpsDisaster RecoveryInfrastructureComplianceCloud ComputingProcess OptimizationMachine LearningSecurity ProductsCloud SaaS DeploymentsContinuous ImprovementTest AutomationScrumSaaSProduct ManagementEnterprise Software

About

I'm passionate about finding great people, building incredible teams, and creating amazing products that customers want to use. I have a talent for hiring, cultivating, motivating, and leading world class teams. I work hard to foster the right culture: an environment that celebrates success, and provides safety to try new things (failure isn't an end state, it's the start of growth). It requires a thoughtful balance between "tried-and-true" approaches (pragmatic) - and the freedom to innovate.

Experience

22 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

11 yrs

Current Experience

Oracle

Director, Cloud Engineering / Infrastructure

May 2015 – Present · 11 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for all of Opower’s infrastructure and Datacenter services (System Engineering, DevOps, Metrics Monitoring and Alerting, Operational DBA, Network Engineering, Datacenter Operations). Provided stability, vision and guidance through the acquisition (Oracle acquired Opower in 2016) – and continued to grow and optimize services adjacent to R&D for Opower. Responsible for planning and implementation of DR strategy for Opower. Introduced Security Tooling (Vault) - and lead the effort to build a PCI compliant offering (as well as passing annual SOC II recertification). Updated and upgraded almost the entire infrastructure technology stack during the two years after acquisition - and worked to enable / migrate to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Reduced (almost eliminated) infrastructure related outages.

SecurityDevOpsCloud EngineeringDisaster RecoveryInfrastructure

Cloudflare, inc.

Engineering Manager - SRE / NetEng

Sep 2014 – May 2015 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Provided people management, process optimization (Agile / Kanban) and oversaw work streams for Network Engineering at Cloudflare. The network team is at the heart of the company’s core offering (CDN / DDoS mitigation) – so there was a constant challenge to balance ongoing project work with operational workload. Company was aggressively expanding their datacenter footprints around the world to better serve customers. Worked alongside SRE / SysEng to better integrate PoP setup and initialization.

Agile MethodologiesProcess OptimizationNetwork Engineering

Twilio, inc.

Engineering Manager

Nov 2013 – Sep 2014 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Provided leadership, direction, and coaching for a software development team working in Cloud Services. Worked alongside a Technical Product Manager to align the strategic team vision with our internal customers. Drove a project for anomaly detection (using Machine Learning) into production - improving consistency and reliability across the Twilio cloud platform. Optimized Agile sprint planning and prioritization for the Cloud Engineering team.

Cloud ServicesMachine LearningAgile

Rapid7

Sr. Manager - Global Engineering Services

Aug 2011 – Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos · El Segundo, Ca

Daily direction, leadership, and management for a senior, accomplished Global Engineering Services team, supporting all Rapid7 Engineering efforts. Managing and supporting five diverse security products (two of which are incubation 1.0 products); from automated cloud SaaS deployments to the world’s most used open source penetration testing framework (Metasploit). Responsible for the architecture, maintenance and delivery of an extensive, complex virtual lab environment on VMware and NetApp.

Security ProductsCloud SaaS DeploymentsSecurity

St. jude medical

Manager, Software Configuration Management

Apr 2007 – Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Sylmar, CA

Leadership, management, and coordination of several SCM teams and activities spread across three continents (roughly 30 people in total). Provided department vision, employee training and mentoring, and reported directly to senior development management (spoke to organizational roadmap and challenges. Championed ongoing continuous improvement initiatives through technology/automation and pragmatic process integration.

Software Configuration ManagementContinuous Improvement

Gmac-rescap

QA Manager: SCM/QAO - Software Configuration Management / Quality Assurance Office

Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 · 4 yrs · Burbank, CA

Founded, built, hired, and managed the QA / QC team for the Master Servicing division. Responsible for integration with development organization - driving automated test regressions suites into the early stages of the development cycle. Worked with development leaders to implement a quality engineering mindset for the entire organization.

Quality AssuranceTest Automation