Daniel Fallon

Summary

An energetic, curious individual contributor with the experience and care to understand complex systems and maintain them at scale.

Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer

2020 - Present
Jackbox Games jackboxgames.com

Developed POCs for a game streaming platform, and maintained video game communications infrastructure hosting >600k simultaneous players--including development of autoscaling systems.

  • Go
  • WebSockets
  • WebRTC
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • Typescript
  • Rollup.js
  • Vue.js

DevOps Engineer

2018 - 2019
project44 project44.com

Designed and maintained a production AWS infrastructure with 3 EKS clusters and kafka clusters that processed >1TB of messages daily.

  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • Kafka
  • Prometheus
  • Ansible
  • Go
  • Jenkins
  • Tekton
  • Helm

Infrastructure Architect

2017 - 2018
DV Trading, LLC dvtrading.co

Designed and maintained the deployment infrastructure for commodities and cryptocurrency trading software.

  • Ansible
  • Kafka
  • Scala
  • TypeScript
  • Electron
  • Kubernetes
  • Vault

Software Engineer

2015 - 2017
Epic Systems Corporation epic.com

Worked to migrate Epic's operating room software to ASP.Net and enhance its existing enterprise grade EHR solution.

  • HTML5/CSS3
  • TypeScript
  • C#
  • SCSS
  • MUMPS

Software Engineer

2015 - 2017
Seraph Group, Inc. imagineyourweb.com

Created and maintained web applications for various industries including the educational sector

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Node.js
  • Meteor.js
  • Git
  • CSS3
  • Jira
  • Agile

Interests

Security Research

  • Epic
  • Seraph Group
  • Undergrad Research

Discovered and developed mitigations for 2 major vulnerabilities while at Epic. Designed a reputation based identity system with key lifecycle management and network effect mitigation.

Software Architecture

  • Epic
  • Undergrad Research
  • Personal Projects

Led efforts to ensure Epic's software was resilient to technological changes by promoting a more modular approach to framework design.

DevOps

  • project44
  • DV Trading
  • Jackbox Games

Designed and managed production level systems at multiple companies through a combination of Kubernetes, ansible and other custom tooling.

Education

Illinois Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 2015