Experience & Education

This page outlines Daniel Genis's professional work history and educational background.

Employment Timeline

Jul 2024–Present | Gynzy, 's-Hertogenbosch | Site Reliability Engineer
Owns platform/infra architecture; eliminated most infra/scaling/performance issues

May 2022–Jun 2024 | Gynzy, 's-Hertogenbosch | SRE Engineering Manager
Led team of 2 senior engineers; migrated infra to Pulumi (IaC)

Dec 2017–Apr 2022 | Gynzy, 's-Hertogenbosch | Devops Engineer
Re-engineered student learning platform; redesigned database stack; improved k8s CI/CD; introduced canary deploys

Feb 2013–Nov 2017 | Byte, Amsterdam | Medior Devops
Improved MySQL hosting infra; migrated ZFS storage from Solaris to FreeBSD; automated lifecycle management for thousands of customer VMs (AWS, DigitalOcean)

Jan 2010–Dec 2012 | Project based development, Amsterdam | CDN & high-availability hosting builder
Built a livestreaming CDN; maintained a highly available, redundant hosting platform (99.99%+ uptime)

Jan 2007–Jul 2007 | Unisys, Schiphol-Rijk | Helpdesk Specialist
B2B hardware/software support via phone and email for Landis+Gyr employees; Exchange server administration

Sep 2004–Jan 2006 | NCR, Amsterdam | Lead Analyst
B2B IT support for Visa: Active Directory, file/Exchange server administration, backup/restore, monitoring, incident escalation

Sep 2003–Sep 2004 | NCR, Amsterdam | IT Analyst
Same scope of B2B IT support for Visa as Lead Analyst role above

Apr 2003–Jul 2003 | Sykes, Amsterdam | Customer Support Representative
B2C support: dial-up connections, internet connectivity, PHP & MySQL support

Education Background

Bachelor-level coursework in Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2007–2013)

MBO level 3 ICT at Academic Amsterdam (2002–2003)

Secondary schooling (Gymnasium, focused on Mathematics and Geography) in Essen & Düsseldorf, Germany (1993–2002)