Daniel Kerwin
Director Of Engineering at Prezi
Neubiberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Kerwin is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling platform and operations teams across security, SRE, developer experience, and data engineering. Currently Director of Engineering at Prezi in Neubiberg, he focuses on enabling product teams to move quickly and confidently while delivering secure, reliable, and cost-efficient systems at scale. His career progression from system administrator roles to Head of Technical Operations at Gini and senior management at Prezi reflects deep operational expertise and an ability to grow teams and practices over time. A pragmatic DevOps engineer, he contributes to open-source tooling—improving configuration and testing for widely used projects like the puppet-nginx module—demonstrating attention to robustness and real-world deployment needs. Daniel pairs strategic leadership with practical improvements to infrastructure, often surfacing small configuration changes that yield measurable reliability gains. He brings a European-based perspective on cost-conscious platform engineering and cross-functional enablement.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
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Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
puppeteer10
linux10
nginx10
puppet10
testing9
bash4
script4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-nginx
Oct 2013 - May 2014
Puppet Module to manage NGINX on various UNIXes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the configuration and testing of the Nginx module, focusing on improving the module's behavior and adding new features. The user introduced settings for `worker_rlimit_nofile` and `proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size` and made related updates to manifests, templates, and testing configurations. These changes enhance the module's functionality and improve its overall configuration options.
nginxpuppetbsd-puppet-modulelinux-puppet-modulearchlinux-puppet-module
dkerwin/gini-api-go
Apr 2015 - Nov 2018
Go client to access Gini API
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 43 pushes in 3 years 7 months
golangapigo-client
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