Andy Dalton
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Apex, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Dalton is a principal software engineer and technical leader with 11+ years of hands-on experience building high-performance, cloud-native and system-level software, currently driving architecture and delivery at Red Hat. He blends deep academic rigor (PhD in Computer Science) with practical expertise across C/C++, Go, Linux, and container ecosystems, having led Kubernetes and agent integrations at Tanium and Sysdig and architected NetApp’s Astra control plane. Andy is obsessive about code quality and developer productivity—his open-source contributions to sysdig improving build hygiene and async metadata collection reflect a focus on robustness under load. He’s comfortable shifting between kernel- and user-space concerns, mentoring large teams, and translating customer needs into scalable designs, and he has a track record of squeezing metric loss and system call overhead down in production systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Clemson UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Appalachian State University
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Github Skills (17)
debugging10
c-language10
system-programming10
build-system10
cprogramming-language10
compiler-flags10
async9
asynchronous9
software-quality9
linux9
shell6
semaphore6
process-management6
python6
java6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
draios/sysdig
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 36 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the build process and codebase of the sysdig tool. Their work involved adding compiler flags like `-Wextra` and `-Werror` to improve build quality, as well as conditionally enabling `-Werror` to address warnings. They also addressed placeholder issues with `snprintf` functions and contributed to the implementation of an asynchronous key-value source framework, showcasing their focus on system-level programming and code quality. The user made changes to multiple files, indicating a broad understanding of the project's architecture.
linux
adalton/go-programming-language
Aug 2019 - Jul 2025
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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