Dan Wendlandt
United States
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Top SchoolDan Wendlandt is a cloud-native networking and security leader who co-founded Isovalent and now leads the Isovalent team at Cisco as VP of Cloud Native Networking & Security. He helped build and commercialize Cilium and ebpf.io, an eBPF-powered platform for networking, security, and observability adopted by enterprises and major cloud providers. Before Isovalent he led product efforts at VMware, was an early product leader at Nicira, and drove the creation of OpenStack Neutron as its first PTL. His background blends hands-on engineering, product management, and research from time as a CMU PhD student plus an MS from Carnegie Mellon and a BS from Stanford. He also spent time as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and remains an active contributor to the Cilium project on GitHub, focusing on documentation and developer onboarding.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, computer science, MS, computer science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (10)
documentations10
documentation10
vagrant8
cilium6
azure6
security5
ebpf5
networking5
kubernetes-pod5
kubernetes5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Nov 2016 - Feb 2024
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:31 PRs, 2 branches, 122 comments in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the project's documentation, evidenced by their commits. They added success/failure messages to a Vagrant start script and, more significantly, updated and expanded the "getting started" guide, including examples and instructions. The user also fixed formatting issues and made minor content adjustments across the documentation, indicating a focus on improving user experience and clarity.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
danwent/cilium
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
BPF & XDP for containers
Contributions:75 pushes, 41 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 1 month
containersbpfdockerxdpkubernetes
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