Daniel Metz

danielmmetz@gmail.com

Employment

September 2016 – Present

January 2023 – Present

Currently spinning up team to take ownership of logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and profiling. Developed and negotiated milestone-based transition plan between orgs.
Authored team vision, charter, and roadmap. Designing plan for a European counterpart team.
Extended Kubernetes controller for sidecar injection to consistently ensure arbitrary mutations across fleet resources.

April 2022 – January 2023

Partnered with Engineering Manager and Co-Lead on org design. Coached 3 teams on their charters and roadmaps.
Reduced complexity and sped up pod startup by eliminating the need for our runtime configuration system's sidecar container.
Sped up our IDL release process by over 2x (from 60m to 25m) by rearchitecting its deployment.
Joined a Tiger Team effort to migrate a Kubernetes cluster from 1.16 to 1.22.

June 2018 – April 2022

Led multi-year effort to develop and drive adoption of safe, automatic production deploys across 90% of services. Identified requirements and collaborated with partner teams to shift culture.
Created long-term high-impact roadmap for team. Contributed to cross-team roadmaps.
Key contributor to Kubernetes migrations. Set architectural guidance for supporting workloads of different types and privilege levels.
Designed and executed on plan for migrating workloads across AWS accounts.
Defined and implemented SOX compliance for the deployment system. Advised on compliance for the orchestration system.
Simplified data architecture and improved analytics by migrating to RDS;
replaced existing uses of DynamoDB, SQS, an ETL process, and HDFS w/ Hive/Presto.
Tech lead for cross-functional peak event preparation program. Set company-wide freeze guidance.

April 2017 – June 2018

Implemented major changes to the Local Promotions platform, enabling the Marketing team to quickly, reliably, and independently launch campaigns.
Integrated with an experimentation platform to permit per-campaign impact monitoring.
Served as interim engineering manager for 2 months.

September 2016 – April 2017

Reduced customer acquisition cost of the Ambassador program by 54% (goal was ~20%).
Identified multi-pronged approach and led implementation.

Pomona College

Fall 2012 – Spring 2016

Core Passenger Outstanding Contribution Award for role in company-wide monolith decomposition.
Inaugural recipient of Shift Left Security Award for exceptional ownership and impact in leading effort toward continuous automatic deploys.