Solomon Hykes
Co-Founder at Dagger
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSolomon Hykes is a seasoned founder and engineer with over a decade of experience building and scaling distributed systems and developer platforms. Best known as Docker's co-founder and former CTO/CEO, he now co-leads Dagger, an open-source runtime for composable workflows where he continues to ship and refactor core runtime internals, module systems and CI pipelines. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—implementing low-level value/op refactors and new builtins like .git—with a talent for growing engineering teams and productizing developer tooling. Based in San Francisco, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with deep technical craftsmanship across open-source and commercial platforms.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github contributions (5)
dagger/dagger
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
An open-source runtime for composable workflows. Great for AI agents and CI/CD.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:418 reviews, 389 commits, 220 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Solomon focused on refactoring and improving the Dagger project's core functionality. This included modifications to the value system, such as the `Value` and `Op` structs, and the introduction of new features like the `.git` and other builtins. They also made several changes to the internal structure of the project, enhancing the module system. Furthermore, the commits show involvement in setting up and enhancing the build and CI pipelines.
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shykes/dagger
Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
A portable devkit for CI/CD pipelines
Contributions:4 PRs, 504 pushes, 153 branches in 3 years
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