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Daniel Fridkin

Resume

A focused CV covering platform leadership, production ownership, GitLab/CI modernization, Kubernetes/GitOps, OCI/AWS infrastructure, multi-AD HA planning, Cloudflare security, observability, networking, DR, automation, backend engineering foundations, production abuse detection, and the Next.js storefront consolidation.

Daniel Fridkin - DevOps Lead & Senior Platform Engineer CV

  • Founded the DevOps function and helped grow the platform team while standardizing a 300+ project GitLab estate.
  • Own production platform patterns across Kubernetes/OKE, Argo CD/GitOps, Cloudflare, observability, networking, infrastructure as code, and DR.
  • Driving a multi-AD Frankfurt production migration covering 270+ pods / 300+ containers plus stateful Redis, Elasticsearch, and database workloads.
  • Hands-on backend and database background provides application-level context for platform, reliability, and incident-response decisions.
  • Built Abuse Detector, in production since October 2026, with Cloudflare enforcement, incremental Loki log aggregation, audited operator controls, and local-LLM review.
  • Building KSP Storefront, consolidating five legacy front ends and services into one Next.js codebase with scoped data endpoints, Redis read budgets, Kubernetes delivery, and automated parity tests.