Dale Ghent
Consulting Engineer at illumos
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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SeniorDale Ghent is a consulting engineer with nearly three decades of hands-on experience in networking, mass data storage, and compute systems integration, currently maintaining CI/CD and storage appliance internals at RackTop Systems. He has a 17-year focused career spanning cloud build, OS distribution development, and site reliability roles at Joyent, OmniTI, and Salesforce, and is an active contributor to the illumos open-source OS community. Dale’s strengths lie in operating-system internals, SAN/NAS/Lustre storage protocols, and lifecycle automation for bare-metal and cloud infrastructure. He pairs deep technical troubleshooting and release management skills with customer-facing advanced support on complex storage appliances. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he blends production-grade engineering with a side pursuit in astronomy—applying automation, imaging, and data sequencing techniques to observatory systems. This mix of long-term platform stewardship and experimental hobbyist engineering gives him a practical, systems-first perspective that benefits both product reliability and innovative integrations.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (98)
maven10
plugin10
engine9
cross-reference9
ascom9
omnios9
java9
dotnet8
raspbian8
camera8
station8
code-search8
raspberry8
opengrok8
astronomy7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mistifyio/buildroot
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 74 pushes, 10 branches in 9 months
daleghent/nina-moon-angle
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Moon Angle plugin for NINA
Contributions:3 reviews, 30 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
moonangle
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