Danny Kulchinsky
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Fastly
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Kulchinsky is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer based in Canada with nine years of focused experience building and operating resilient, high-performance infrastructure. He has led platform and SRE work at Fastly and Telefónica, architecting Kubernetes clusters, traffic-shifting blue/green strategies, and Prometheus-based observability integrations. Danny contributes to prominent open-source projects like kubespray, where his networking and security-focused patches improved production readiness for Kubernetes deployments. His background spans infrastructure-as-code, load balancing, log pipelines (EFK), and automation—skills he combines with hands-on troubleshooting and performance analysis. Known for bridging deep technical expertise with cross-team collaboration, he also has experience shaping cloud transformation roadmaps and implementing regulatory-compliant architectures. Unusually for an SRE, he pairs telecom-grade systems design and VoIP experience with modern cloud-native practices, giving him a broad systems perspective.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Buissnes Administration, Cum laude, BA, Buissnes Administration, Cum laude at Netanya Academic College
English, Hebrew, Russian
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
network-configuration10
docker10
groovy10
kubernetes-cluster10
nexus10
dockers10
automation10
infrastructure10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
devops10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ansible-ThoTeam/nexus3-oss
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Ansible role to install and provision sonatype nexus3-oss
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Danny primarily focused on enhancing the Nexus 3 OSS Ansible role's functionality by enabling and configuring various authentication realms, including NuGet API-Key, npm Bearer Token, and Docker Bearer Token. They added support for Docker-related features, such as allowing disabling authentication for Docker pull and making the Docker HTTP connector port optional. Furthermore, the user implemented tasks for email server configuration and task-related alert email notifications, as well as updating tasks effectively.
ansible-rolesonatypedevopsgroovyansible
kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 40 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Danny primarily contributes to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of the Kubernetes cluster deployment. Their work involves modifying manifests and configurations for components like kube-proxy, Calico, and nodelocaldns, including adding flags, mounting volumes, and updating versions. Furthermore, the user demonstrates an understanding of Kubernetes networking and security by implementing features like the xtables lock, the definition of `FELIX_KUBENODEPORTRANGES` and addressing version compatibility issues in the network configuration. Overall, these commits show a clear focus on maintaining and improving the operational readiness of the Kubernetes cluster.
kubernetes-clusteransiblekuberneteshigh-availabilitybare-metal
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