Danielle Swyhart

Senior Site Reliability Engineer with experience leading CI/CD modernization, Terraform-based AWS infrastructure, ETL optimization, and application migration work for enterprise cloud platforms. I build secure, scalable, cost-efficient systems and delivery pipelines that improve reliability, release safety, and operational resilience.

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Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

Nava Public Benefit Company, Remote

April 2021 - Current

  • Since April 2022, led cross-repository migration work for the CMS CCXP program from legacy MOSS to Greenfield v4 infrastructure across frontend, backend, ETL, data, and shared platform services.
  • Architected a shared Jenkins and Groovy CI library spanning 8+ repositories, standardizing delivery workflows, reusable deployment functions, and faster pipeline onboarding.
  • Implemented semantic-version release automation, pre-build PR merge validation, blue-green deployments, and Akamai cache-purge automation to improve release safety and reduce downtime.
  • Standardized Node.js runtime upgrades from 18 through 24 across frontend, backend, and pipeline ecosystems, reducing technical debt and improving build stability.
  • Built CCXP Greenfield AWS foundations in Terraform across DEV, TEST, IMPL, and PROD with reusable modules for KMS, CloudWatch, ACM, SQS, SNS, Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, and EventBridge.
  • Led zero-downtime PostgreSQL upgrades from Amazon RDS 11 to 14.16, including read-only endpoint support and production right-sizing for improved resiliency and performance.
  • Designed a parallelized Speedy ETL architecture and automated Greenfield migration for 15+ ETL pipelines across DEV, TEST, IMPL, and PROD.
  • Replaced log-based Lambda health checks with database-driven status monitoring, timeout restart handling, and fatal-log detection to improve ETL reliability.
  • Established production-ready CI/CD for the React client, Single-SPA root-config, import-map workflows, SonarQube, and New Relic browser and server observability.
  • Strengthened platform security with TruffleHog secret scanning, cross-account Assume Role adoption, IAM hardening, KMS rotation, and deployment guardrails across 8+ repositories.

Site Reliablity Engineer

NCR on the SRE Team, FT Worth, TX

August 2015 - October 2020

  • Built the chef cookbooks used to provision the servers and deploy software artifacts to them.
  • Built, deployed, and maintained the ARM Templates used to migrate on prem infrastructure to Azure.
  • Designed, built and maintained all of the QA, Preprod, and production enviroments spanning every Azure region across the globe to meet the different product needs.
  • Designed, scheduled, gained approval and deploy as well as maintained SaaS product versions in preprod and prod environments.
  • Implemented application insights and provided analysis to product teams along with creating product enhancment recommendations.
  • Provided 24x7 support, incident management, and subject matter expert consultation during system or service interuptions.
  • Wrote product specs, flow charts, training documents, and process runbooks.
  • Managed petabytes of aggrigated data using SQL tasks and stored procedures.
  • Built, maintainted, and troubleshot no-SQL database solutions (couchbase, redis cache).
  • Built and provided analysis using ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana).
  • I was in the process of learning Terraform and Kubernetes along with continerizing our products.

Software Quality Engineer

NCR on the Mobile Applications Team, FT Worth, TX

February 2011 - August 2015

  • Built and designed testing enviroments and scenerios.
  • Created, implementing and maintained application test plans and test cases.
  • Coordinate with multiple teams to develop deployment stratigies and methods.
  • Identify, document and track defects.
  • Regression testing after defect resolutions.
  • Write requirements and specs based on developments application needs.
  • Managed the Quality Analysis teams during development phases.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering CI/CD Architecture and Release Automation Terraform and AWS Infrastructure as Code Jenkins, Groovy, GitHub Actions, SonarQube AWS ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, ACM, KMS Blue-Green Deployments and Akamai Cache Purge Automation Node.js Runtime Upgrades and Modernization ETL Pipeline Engineering and Performance Optimization PostgreSQL Administration and Upgrade Planning Observability with New Relic, Splunk, ELK, and CloudWatch Security Hardening, Secret Scanning, IAM, and Compliance Controls Windows, Linux, Azure, and Full Software Stack Administration

Courses and Training

A+ Network+ SQL Scripting SQL Server Administration Agile Methodology Chef Automation Habitat by Chef ARM / Azure CLI Azure infrastructure Artifactory Hashicorp Vault Ruby Restful API Pearl Powershell Powershell DSC Markdown Zerto VMware Software Security ELK Stack AWS Cloudformation AWS ECS AWS EKS AWS Cloudwatch AWS Synthetic Canaries AWS Lambda Terraform (Azure and AWS) Splunk