Darron Froese

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Experience

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Confidential Blockchain Project

  • Led rollout of Tailscale for internal access, building automation framework enabling ZeroTrust ACLs at scale
  • Achieved full security approval with zero remediations while simplifying access for hundreds of engineers, reducing operational risk
  • Drove adoption of Crossplane, enabling Kubernetes-native Infrastructure as Code that cut provisioning times from days to minutes
  • Standardized workflows and automated resource creation, helping platform teams scale while empowering product teams to ship faster
  • Spearheaded enablement of Atlantis, providing secure, auditable, self-service infrastructure deployment
  • Accelerated delivery cycles and reduced dependency on platform engineering, improving autonomy and confidence across the organization
  • Mentor engineers to scale impact, bringing clarity to complex initiatives and consistently delivering infrastructure that makes teams more effective
Kubernetes Crossplane Tailscale ZeroTrust Atlantis Infrastructure as Code Terraform

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Dapper Labs

  • Lead the SRE team to securely scale internal Kubernetes platform across multiple clusters using GCP, GKE, Terraform, and Atlantis
  • Pioneered migration from GCP Memorystore to Redis Enterprise, eliminating frequent failures and achieving 100% uptime over one year
  • Implemented Kubernetes policy enforcement using Kyverno across all clusters, ensuring consistent security and compliance standards
  • Developed Vault proof-of-concept for short-lived credential management, addressing static credential sprawl
  • Built and maintained observability stack using Grafana, Prometheus, and custom tooling for multi-cluster monitoring
Kubernetes GCP Terraform Redis PostgreSQL Kafka

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Salesforce

  • Architected and built multi-cloud service platform using Golang microservices with Event Sourcing architecture
  • Designed infrastructure leveraging Heroku, AWS, GCP, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Lambda, and Terraform for secure cloud resource provisioning
  • Led DevOps initiatives for Salesforce IoT cloud, building tools and strategies to bridge public and private cloud environments
  • Won peer-nominated company-wide "All Star Award" in 2019
  • Recipient of "President's Award" for exceptional achievements in 2018
Go AWS GCP Kafka Terraform

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Datadog

  • Led TechOps team monitoring, building, and scaling the Datadog SaaS platform serving millions of metrics
  • Spearheaded infrastructure automation improvements, implementing comprehensive testing for Chef cookbooks and modularizing codebase
  • Introduced Consul as cluster-wide Key/Value store and Service Discovery platform, prototyped and deployed enterprise-wide
  • Pioneered Docker-based mini-PaaS using octohost project with chatops capabilities
  • Designed stateless, auto-scaling infrastructure using AWS ELB, Auto Scaling Groups, Chef, and Packer
  • Delivered internal and external technical presentations on infrastructure automation and containerization
Docker Chef AWS Consul Packer

Co-Founder & Technical Director

nonfiction studios inc.

  • Built multi-million dollar corporate communications company from startup to 15-person agency
  • Architected and managed infrastructure across AWS, Rackspace, Linode, DigitalOcean, Heroku, and Joyent
  • Built and maintained infrastructure automation using Chef, Packer, Vagrant, Docker, Ansible, and Capistrano
  • Developed custom web applications using Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, PHP (WordPress, Laravel), HTML, and CSS
  • Managed team of web designers and developers, mentoring on best practices and modern web technologies
  • Handled full-stack operations: servers (Apache, nginx), databases (MySQL, Redis, Solr), and deployment pipelines
Ruby on Rails PHP Chef Docker AWS