Brent Daniel
Systems Engineer at Nutanix
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Daniel is a systems engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a long history of architecting and modernizing data center, networking, and virtualization environments. Currently at Nutanix, he combines hands-on systems engineering with a background in solution architecture and pre/post-sales support from prior roles at DynTek and DSM Technology Consultants. His public contributions to the Open Liberty project show he also digs into backend Java work, improving startup reliability and performance in a widely used open-source application server. Brent’s career includes leading large teams and delivering disaster recovery, SAN, VMware, and Cisco-based solutions for a 3,500-user, multi-site government environment. He’s comfortable bridging engineering and operations while adding practical code-level fixes when production systems demand it—an operator who still prefers to solve problems in code. Based in Tallahassee, he brings a pragmatic blend of enterprise-scale systems thinking and developer-level troubleshooting.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Associate’s Degree at Tallahassee Community CollegeHigh School, High School at Wewahitchka High School
Github Skills (8)
server-side10
appserver10
javas10
application-server10
java10
osgi9
logging8
file-management7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 459 commits, 395 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brent primarily worked on fixing logic and improving the performance and reliability of the Open Liberty application server. Their contributions included fixing minification and runnable logic, validating archive paths, and marking application start dependencies to be ignored during quiesce. They also addressed issues related to early startup failures and server shutdowns, and added features to enable integration of external libraries. The changes primarily involve Java code.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
PurpleLiberty/example-rest-http
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
An example REST application using Open Liberty and OpenShift
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
open-libertyopenshiftlibertyrestjava
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