Dylan Silva
Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDylan Silva is a Senior Principal Product Manager with 13 years of experience based in San Francisco, currently leading strategy and user experience for the Ansible Automation Platform at Red Hat. He combines hands-on SRE and deployment engineering experience from AppDynamics and Intuit with product leadership, specializing in application operations, monitoring (New Relic, Splunk, CA Wily), and automation tooling like Jenkins, Puppet, and Chef. An active contributor to the Ansible open-source project, he has improved documentation, installation guidance, and module metadata transitions to streamline module lifecycle and user onboarding. Trained in bio‑engineering, Dylan applies analytical rigor to architect SaaS operation solutions and uniquely forecasts rapid, untapped growth in mobile-first monitoring, aspiring to find the next major observability breakthrough.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diegodiploma obtained, Bio-Chemical Engineering, diploma obtained, Bio-Chemical Engineering at San Diego Mesa College
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Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
ansible-galaxy10
documentations10
documentation10
ansible10
yaml8
community-management7
python6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Dec 2016 - Nov 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 30 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to the documentation and configuration of the Ansible project. The user updated roadmap documents, release schedules, and module support pages, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information for developers and users. Additionally, the user modified module metadata, transitioning modules from core to community support, and implemented changes to the module support documentation reflecting these changes. The user also updated installation instructions.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
thaumos/ansible
Dec 2016 - May 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.
Contributions:2 PRs, 105 pushes, 61 branches in 2 years 5 months
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
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