Casey Davenport
Principal Software Engineer at Tigera
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCasey Davenport is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native networking and security systems. As a core contributor and engineer at Tigera/Project Calico, Casey has driven IPv6, IPAM, Kubernetes backend support, and CI/CD improvements that help power Calico across over a million nodes globally. He blends backend systems design with DevOps and release automation expertise—implementing unit-tested features, release workflows, and production-ready installation tooling. Prior work in SDN and embedded systems gives him deep practical knowledge of networking protocols, hardware integration, and scalable controller architectures. Known for strengthening stability (race-condition fixes, startup/wait logic) and documentation, he reliably delivers both code and the operational practices to run it. Colleagues rely on him to connect low-level networking details to robust, automated cloud deployments.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University
French, German
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Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
docker10
back-end-development10
python10
net10
ip10
cni10
dockers10
networking10
cicd10
go10
network-interface10
ipv610
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/cni-plugin
Feb 2016 - Apr 2022
Calico CNI plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:103 releases, 32 reviews, 579 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Casey contributed to the Calico CNI plugin by modifying the code to support Kubernetes network policy and improve the plugin's functionality within a Kubernetes environment. They focused on handling various scenarios, including existing and new container creation within Kubernetes, and implementing functionality to handle host-local IPAM and Azure IPAM. The user also worked on the deployment and configuration of the plugin, contributing to the creation of installation scripts and the handling of CNI network configuration files.
calicocnicalico-cnicni-plugin
projectcalico/calico
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Cloud native networking and network security
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:137 releases, 1901 reviews, 3385 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Casey's contributions focus on improving the project's documentation, specifically within the Kubernetes context. The changes include fixing documentation bugs, updating image references, and adding documentation for release processes. Furthermore, the user made several contributions related to CI/CD, including building Docker images, adding a shell script for running tests, and configuring release automation through GitHub Actions.
multi-clustersecuritynetworkingsdnvirtual-network
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