Summary
Daniel Farrell is a Head of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-first, highly reliable systems and driving DevOps practices across startups and scaleups. He has led SRE and cloud engineering efforts at BlockFi, Doctor On Demand, and SPS Commerce, specializing in minimizing technical debt while maximizing scalability, efficiency, and operational integrity. Comfortable architecting long-term solutions, he blends systems administration, AWS migrations, and high-availability design with pragmatic leadership that keeps teams shipping. Based in Two Harbors, Minnesota, he brings a practical focus on reliability engineering and cost-effective cloud operations that often surfaces as durable, low-maintenance platforms rather than flashy one-off projects.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer