Daniel MacLaury

Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Cloud, Networking, Kubernetes, Storage, Virtualization

Summary

Cloud infrastructure engineer with 6+ years of experience building solutions with reliability and scalability as core principals. Expertise in networking, and designing and delivering systems built on AWS, Cloudflare, and Kubernetes. I have a curious mind and am an adept learner; I enjoy keeping up to date with new technologies and best practices to adapt to the continually changing cloud landscape.

Professional Experience

Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Cloud Traffic

Procore Technologies
2024 - Current
  • Maintain ownership of core and edge networking systems in the critical path for the availability of the customer-facing platform.
  • Partner cross-functionally with other platform teams to deliver a cohesive range of solutions that enable developers.
  • Represent the Cloud Traffic team in an initiative to build the next iteration of the cloud platform (Core Networking, Kubernetes, Ingress).
  • Design, implement, and support resilient and scalable solutions for unified global network connectivity that meet the demands of current and future use cases.
  • Deliver major initiatives and changes within the defined timelines with minimal customer impact.
  • Build and implement solutions with an emphasis on using infrastructure as code and continuous delivery.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to support the owned systems in a 24/7 environment.
  • Spearheaded the development of service level indicators (SLI) and service level objective (SLO) benchmarks for the systems within the team’s area of responsibility.
  • Participate in agile sprint ceremonies, backlog grooming, and daily standups.

Infrastructure Engineer | Cloud Traffic

Procore Technologies
2022 - 2024
  • Support Procore's global networking as a member of the Cloud Traffic team.
  • Participate in troubleshooting production issues across services, platforms, and infrastructure.
  • Contribute to planning for the expansion, growth, and reliability of Procore's traffic networking.
  • Develop, extend, and maintain in-house Terraform modules.
  • Consult with other Procore platform and development teams on networking and traffic topics.

Systems Engineer

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc.
2021 - 2022
  • Install, configure, and maintain technology solutions for clients:
    • Networking equipment including Arista, Cisco, and Dell.
    • Storage systems including DellEMC Isilon, PowerScale, and PowerStore.
    • Hyper-converged infrastructure including DellEMC VxRail, VMware vSAN and NVIDIA GPU virtualization.
    • Server infrastructure including VMware vSphere, ESXi, and PowerEdge servers.
    • Cloud infrastructure including AWS EC2, S3, VPC, and site to site VPN.
  • Provide support for Linux, macOS, and Windows client environments.
  • Perform system health checks for MSP clients on a regular basis.
  • Complete software and firmware upgrades for internal and client environments.
  • Maintain internal network, server, storage, AWS, and Azure infrastructure to ensure business continuity.
  • Implement Ansible and Terraform for standardized changes and rollout of internal infrastructure.
  • Participate in help desk rotation to support internal users and act as an escalation contact for infrastructure.

Engineer & Project Manager

DigiMax Consulting
2018 - 2021
  • Specified, designed, and implemented technology solutions for high-profile individuals, motion picture studios, and education clients.
  • Implemented, managed, and maintained client networks consisting of Fortinet FortiGate, FortiSwitch, Ruckus wireless access points, and Arista switches.
  • Involved in all phases of projects, including system design, implementation, and post-installation support.

Team Leader

Elon University - Broadcast Engineering
2016 - 2017
  • Manage shared storage servers, AVID Nexis, xPression graphics server, and TelVue playback server.
  • Provide broadcast engineering for class workshops, student media, and special events.
  • Setup, breakdown and maintain cameras, lighting as well as other control room and studio equipment.

Co-Founder

Ocity Hosting, LLC
2011 - 2016
  • Co-founded server hosting company providing game servers, web hosting, and virtualized servers.
  • Operated Supermicro server and Juniper network infrastructure in New York and Los Angeles.

Certifications

Daniel holds a number of certiciations covering cloud, virtualization, storage, and networking technology!

Independent Projects

NetBox Plugin for AWS VPCs

Purpose:

As a user of NetBox for many years, I developed a simple plugin for NetBox OSS that adds models for AWS VPCs, Subnets, and Accounts.

Technologies:
  • Python
  • Django
  • Github Actions: CI/CD
GitHub Repo:

Personal Website

Technologies:
  • Terraform: IaC
  • Github Actions: CI/CD
  • AWS S3: Web Hosting
  • AWS CloudFront: CDN
  • Cloudflare: DNS
  • AWS ACM: SSL Certificates
  • Bootstrap 5: Website Framework
GitHub Repo: