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DANH C HUYNH

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Profile

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Strategic and hands-on Engineering Leader with a proven track record of building and leading global DevSecOps teams of 20+ engineers in highly regulated environments, including Fintech and Medical. Experienced in designing & managing globally distributed systems handling 1B+ calls per month using AWS, GCP, & Alibaba Cloud. Specialized in Everything as Code, driving AI adoption to improve engineering efficiency.

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{
  "Strategic Leadership & Organizational Growth": {
    "Global Team Engineering": "Proven ability to build, scale, and lead multi-national DevSecOps and SRE organizations of 20+ engineers.",
    "Strategic Roadmap Development": "Defining long-term technical visions that align engineering capabilities with core business objectives.",
    "Strategic Platform Engineering": "Spearheaded frameworks that standardize DevSecOps best practices into reusable, secure-by-default templates to the Developer Experience (DX) by reducing operational friction and empowering teams to accelerate deployment cycles without compromising quality.",
    "Data Driven": "Used data & metrics to assist both management & technical decisions.",
    "AI Strategy & Adoption": "Leading the integration of AI solutions to streamline DevSecOps workflows and improve engineering efficiency.",
    "Cloud FinOps & Governance": "Orchestrating cloud cost optimization strategies and managing multi-million dollar budgets and vendor relationships.",
    "Mentorship & Culture": "Cultivating a \"You Build It, You Own It\" philosophy and fostering growth mindsets through technical coaching and office hours."
  },
  "Technical Architecture & Strategy": {
    "Global Systems Design": "Architecting globally distributed, high-concurrency platforms capable of handling over 1+ billions transactions monthly.",
    "Everything as Code": "Standardizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) to ensure reproducible and scalable environments. No pets in the system.",
    "Multi-Regions Resilience": "Designing and executing complex migration, cloud networking, and disaster recovery strategies across AWS Accounts, regions, & AZs.",
    "DevSecOps & Compliance": "Embedding security into the SDLC (SAST/DAST) and maintaining rigorous standards for SOC2 and regulated environments (Medical, Fintech).",
    "Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)": "Establishing operational excellence through the definition and management of SLAs, SLOs, and 24/7/365 incident response frameworks."
  }
}

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[
  {
    "title": "Director - Head of DevOps & SRE",
    "company": "Tyfone, Inc.",
    "period": "2023 – Present",
    "highlights": {
      "Technical & Strategic Leadership": "Oversee platform infrastructure, tooling, and developer experience for a global organization",
      "Cloud Migration": "Led 100% migration (workload & networking) from On-Prem to AWS with secure-by-default architecture",
      "AI Integration": "Directing AI adoption to streamline workflows and improve engineering efficiency",
      "Cloud FinOps & Governance": "Orchestrating cloud cost optimization strategies and managing multi-million dollar budgets and vendor relationships",
      "Team Building": "Built and scaled global DevSecOps teams across multiple continents",
      "Security & Compliance": "Established and maintained SOC2 / PCI-DSS compliances and security best practices across all environments",
      "Observability": "Implemented comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions to ensure system reliability and performance",
      "Incident Response": "Established and managed 24/7/365 incident response frameworks and SLO/SLA management",
      "Disaster Recovery": "Designed and executed comprehensive disaster recovery strategies to ensure business continuity",
      "Vendor Management": "Managed relationships with cloud providers and security vendors to optimize costs and performance"
    }
  },
  {
    "title": "Director - DevOps Platform",
    "company": "Panzura",
    "period": "2022 – 2023",
    "highlights": {
      "Philosophy": "Orchestrated \"Everything as Code\" transformation for the DevSecOps platform",
      "Infrastructure": "Designed secured IaC using GitLab, Terraform, and Terragrunt for automated CI/CD",
      "Compliance": "Managed a full security stack (AquaSec, Lacework, Mend) to maintain SOC2 standards"
    }
  },
  {
    "title": "Manager - API & IAM",
    "company": "Align Technology",
    "period": "2017 – 2022",
    "highlights": {
      "Scale": "Managed Global API & Identity Platform supporting high-concurrency microservices and 1B+ monthly calls",
      "Migration": "Led 100% migration to multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Aliyun)",
      "Team": "Grew and managed a global team of 10+ engineers; maintained 24/7/365 rotations",
      "Mobile": "Designed CI/CD for mobile apps (Google Play/Apple Store) using Fastlane"
    }
  },
  {
    "title": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
    "company": "Verizon",
    "period": "2016 – 2017",
    "highlights": {
      "Migration": "Led \"Lift & Shift\" migrations to AWS using Jenkins and Ansible"
    }
  },
  {
    "title": "ProdOps/DevOps Engineer / Systems Engineer II",
    "company": "Progress Software",
    "period": "2012 – 2016",
    "highlights": {
      "Infrastructure": "Managed physical R&D datacenters, VMWare, and complex database environments"
    }
  },
  {
    "title": "Sushi Chef",
    "company": "Japanese Restaurants",
    "period": "2009 – 2011",
    "highlights": {
      "Operations": "Managed high-volume service and precision-based food preparation. Be a cool Sushi Chef"
    }
  }
]

~$ cat EDUCATION.json

[
  { "degree": "M.S. in Information Technology", "school": "Virginia Tech" },
  { "degree": "B.S. in Computer Science", "minor": "Business", "school": "NC State University" },
  { "degree": "A.S. in Engineering", "school": "Wake Tech CC" }
]

~$ cat CONTACT_INFO.json

{
  "Name": "Danh C Huynh",
  "Location": "Raleigh-Durham, NC",
  "Email": "danhuynh.info@gmail.com",
  "LinkedIn": "https://linkedin.com/in/danhconghuynh"
}