Daniel Drack

Senior DevOps Engineer | Consultant | Community Organizer

About Me

Hi, I’m Daniel! :D

I’m an IT guy from Austria who’s quite into sports, food, drinks and spending time with friends whenever possible.
My job is to build and design elegant and functional IT systems and their environments.
I started my IT carreer as an administrator for ETL and BI tools.
After that I worked some time in a data warehousing team before diving into all topics devops and cloud native.
In my current role I’m a Senior DevOps and cloud-native consultant with FullStackS GmbH.
I hold a BSc in Industrial Engineering, a MA in Innovation Management and a professional MBA in IT Management.

Currently I live in Graz with my girlfriend and our tomcat Manfred.
After work I enjoy to organize the Graz local CNCF community chapter, KCD Austria and engage in all things community and mentoring others.

I’m skilled in some areas and I’ve learned and studied quite some stuff as well.
My current buzzwords are: k8s devops agile architecture automation integration

Professional Experience

FullStackS GmbH

Senior DevOps Engineer

June 2022 - Present

https://fullstacks.eu/

Talking the talk and walking the walk ;-)

Consulting my customers on all things DevOps, Automation, Infrastructure as Code, Supply Chain and Runtime Security. We build platforms, teach and educate our customers and enable them to outperform their competitors.

AVL List GmbH

IT Infrastructure Specialist

January 2019 - June 2022

https://avl.com

Building AVL's internal DevOps platform.

I helped in developing the AVL internal DevOps platform. My go-to buzzwords were Ansible, Artifact Management, K8s, GitOps

ARZ Allgemeines Rechenzentrum GmbH

Administrator & Information Architect

March 2014 - December 2018

https://www.arz.at/

Regulatory DataWarehouse ETL Admin and Information Architect

My team built, maintained and operated a central Data Warehouse for finance regulatory purpuse. I was responsible for administering the ETL and BI platforms, as well as developing ETL jobs.

Academics

AIM - Austrian Institute of Management

MBA IT Management

2021 - 2023

Classes in management, controlling, leadership, IT and enterprise architecture.
Focused on IT management.

Campus02 - university of applied sciences

MA Innovation Management

2019 - 2021

Classes in management, marketing, leadership, law and business development.
Focused on innovation management.

MCI - Management Center Innsbruck

BSc Industrial Engineering

2015 - 2018

We accompany motivated people.

Classes in science, engineering, management.
Focused on industrial engineering.
Foreign semester at Tunghai University, Taichnug, Taiwan.

Speaker Track Record

  • [2024-06-07] cloud-native software supply chain security: the hard truth @ Area41 [Zürich]
    -> Video | Slides
  • [2024-06-06] cloud-native software supply chain security: the hard truth @ DevWeek [Online]
    -> Video | Slides
  • [2024-02-03] Fundamental Truths about Cloud Native \w Thomas Schütz @ FH Burgenland Cloud Day 2024
    -> Video | Slides
  • [2023-09-26] Building a cloud native austria \w Thomas Schütz @ KCD Austria 2023
    -> Video | Slides
  • [2023-09-06] don’t commit shit @ DevOps & Security Meetup Wien
    -> Slides
  • [2023-07-27] Essentials of Cloud Native Security @ WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2023 Online
    -> Slides
  • [2023-04-27] “Community Building” panel discussion @ WeAreDevelopers Bits & Bytes
  • [2022-11-23] Using Kubernetes to manage your operating system \w Klaus Kämpf @ Cloud Native Graz
  • [2022-02-23] CNCF - Die Organisation hinter Kubernetes \w Jürgen Etzelstorfer @ Cloud Native Graz
  • [2021-11-24] CI/CD mit Azure DevOps & K8s @ Cloud Native Graz