Daniel Meier

Infrastructure, Linux, automation, and operational engineering

About

Dan

Infrastructure, Linux, and Automation

Senior IT professional with a systems, infrastructure, and automation focus.

I have spent more than 16 years working across Linux, infrastructure, cloud platforms, CI/CD, automation, and operational engineering. My work is broader than the usual "DevOps" label and centers on building systems that are reliable, understandable, and durable in production.

Linux Automation Platform Engineering Cloud CI/CD Reliability

Profile

What I bring

My background spans infrastructure, tooling, architecture, reliability, and the practical realities of running technology in production. I care about reducing unnecessary complexity, improving resilience, automating repeatable work, and leaving environments easier to operate over time.

I am most comfortable where technical depth, operational ownership, and engineering judgment need to come together, especially in environments where systems have to be both effective and maintainable under pressure.

Core Areas

What I work on

Linux And Systems

Production environments, troubleshooting, platform stability, and systems work grounded in operational clarity.

Automation And IaC

Ansible, Terraform, and repeatable infrastructure workflows that reduce drift and improve consistency.

Platform And Cloud

Delivery foundations, deployment patterns, and infrastructure decisions that support long-term operability.

CI/CD And Enablement

Practical delivery pipelines that help teams move faster without losing reliability, control, or visibility.

Operations And Resilience

Observability, failure handling, and systems that remain understandable when they are under real stress.

Security-Minded Workflows

Operational practices and technical decisions that improve security without turning systems into bureaucracy.

Working Principles

How I think

Clarity over complexity.

Good systems should be understandable by the people who need to run, debug, and improve them.

Reliability over cleverness.

I value engineering decisions that hold up in production more than decisions that merely look sophisticated.

Automation where it pays off.

Automation should remove repeated effort, reduce mistakes, and create more predictable operating conditions.

Operability matters.

A system is only good if it can be maintained, observed, and trusted when conditions stop being ideal.

This Blog

What you will find here

I use this site to write about infrastructure, Linux, automation, platform work, cloud systems, security-minded operations, and the tradeoffs behind engineering decisions. The goal is not to repeat vendor messaging or generic best practices, but to document approaches that remain useful in real environments.

Contact

Get in touch

If you want to connect professionally, you can find me on LinkedIn.