Danil Kim

Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer | Toronto, ON

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About Me

Dedicated Infrastructure Engineer with over 25 years of experience, including 10+ years focused on automating CI/CD deployments and architecting cloud and hybrid infrastructures. Obsessed with engineering bullet-proof systems, I am driven to redefine the "new normal" for operational excellence—setting a sky-high bar for quality that ensures absolute reliability and consistent results for the entire team. Proficient in managing multi-regional production workloads and Kubernetes (managed/self-managed), I am committed to closing gaps, accelerating deployments, and optimizing TCO through data-driven insights.

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Professional Experience

IQVIA | Toronto, ON

Senior DevOps Engineer | Dec 2020 – Present

  • Multi-Region Architecture & DR: Architected and deployed a bullet-proof distributed production infrastructure extending from East-Canada to South Africa. Established high availability and disaster recovery standards for mission-critical workloads.
  • Kubernetes Orchestration: Managed transition from Rancher to EKS and GKE, overseeing multi-cluster environments. Engineered specialized GPU-optimized node groups for ML workloads and optimized worker node scalability to ensure consistent performance.
  • GitOps & Automation: Redefined the deployment standard by implementing FluxCD and ArgoCD, establishing a "Single Source of Truth" for manifests. Built robust CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, CircleCI, GitHub Actions) to accelerate release cycles without compromising stability.
  • Cost & Performance Optimization: Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by leading the strategic migration from x64 to ARM architecture and implementing Spot Instances for non-critical workloads, maintaining application resilience while cutting costs.
  • Observability Ecosystem: Streamlined centralized monitoring and alerting by integrating Fluentd, CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, and Grafana. Designed proactive alarm logic to detect anomalies before they impacted availability.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Enforced consistency across environments by managing all infrastructure via Terraform and Ansible. Automating provisioning to eliminate configuration drift.
  • Security & Compliance: Hardened infrastructure by implementing SSL/TLS, managing granular IAM access controls, and securing network boundaries via VPC peering and VPNs.

APIQU Inc. | Toronto, ON

DevOps Engineer | Jan 2020 – Dec 2021

  • Cloud Modernization: Redesigned on-premise architecture for migration to the cloud, implementing rigorous network security protocols.
  • Pipeline Engineering: Automated manual release processes into standardized CI/CD pipelines, significantly reducing deployment errors.

Cattle-Scan | Toronto, ON

Systems Architect & DevOps Engineer | Jan 2020 – Mar 2021

  • Cloud Migration: Led the end-to-end migration from legacy on-prem servers to AWS Cloud, ensuring zero data loss.
  • Build Automation: Architected a secure build and deployment process, introducing modern DevOps practices to the development lifecycle.

DevOps Toronto LTD | Toronto, ON

DevOps Engineer | Jan 2020 – Dec 2020

  • Containerization: Containerized legacy applications using Docker and Kubernetes, improving portability and scalability.
  • IaC Implementation: Introduced Terraform and CloudFormation to codify infrastructure, enabling rapid environment provisioning.

Seven Hills of Kazakhstan LLP | Astana, Kazakhstan

DevOps Engineer | 2017 – 2018

  • Hybrid Administration: Administered mixed Windows/Linux environments, ensuring high uptime for business-critical services.
  • AWS Management: Managed core AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53) and implemented auto-scaling strategies to handle fluctuating traffic loads.
  • Configuration Management: Utilized Ansible and SaltStack to automate server patching and configuration, reducing manual operational overhead.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Astana, Kazakhstan

Mission Critical Infrastructure Engineer | May 2008 – Nov 2016

  • Mission Critical Engineering (2008–2011): Specialized in high-availability infrastructure for enterprise clients. Led the provisioning and upgrading of SAN storage and HP-UX/Linux servers. Developed custom monitoring scripts (Bash) to ensure strict SLA compliance.
  • Technical Solutions Representative (2011–2016): Managed technical relationships for 70+ enterprise customers across 7 countries. Boosted annual sales from $1.5M to $13M by aligning technical solutions with business continuity requirements.

What My Colleagues Say

Steve Rekun Sr. Director Of DevOps and CyberSecurity
July 2020

Steve managed Danil directly

Danil started working with me as a DevOps Engineer to grow DevOps Toronto LTD presence in the Canadian and European market. The role included creating CI/CD process, moving companies to Amazon and collaboration with technical teams. Danil also diligently ensures that his KPIs are updated and tracked, which helped me understand what went well and what did not. His energy to make things happen was contagious and it helped us achieve great goals. One of the best DevOps Engineers we had for sure.
Volodymyr Skubiy Service Territory Lead (PMP, ITIL, Cybersecurity)
December 2019

Volodymyr managed Danil directly

Danil is very dynamic sales person with huge baggage technical and sales skills. While we work together in HP, he produced targeted order and revenue including YoY growth in assigned accounts. He executed company's sales strategy knowing customers' business environmental and industry trends. The great his natural ability of adopting and understanding end-customers targets helped him to build and maintain perfect relationship with accounts and end-customer executives. It was pleasure to work with him.
Maxim Shestakov Major Account Manager @ Fortinet
December 2019

Maxim worked with Danil on the same team

I know Danil as an IT professional that passioned about new technologies, a real team player, and attentive to details person. No doubts, you will be a real asset to a company! The best of luck!

Education

Advanced Diploma in Computer Networking and Support, Seneca College, Toronto, ON, 2020

Bachelor of Information Systems (Programming Minor), Karaganda Economic University, 2008

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