Dallas Delaney
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDallas Delaney is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 4 years of professional experience building and architecting Linux-based systems for Azure and embedded platforms. At Microsoft he has focused on Azure Linux container hosts and OS-level engineering, advancing build systems, cross-toolchain packaging, and security patches for production cloud services. His open-source contributions to microsoft/azurelinux include adding architecture-specific package builds (arm64/x86_64), integrating cross-toolchains and dependencies like OPA and OpenSSL, and fixing CVE-related vulnerabilities—work that directly improves Azure’s edge and service reliability. Earlier roles at Qualcomm honed his low-level Linux and Android audio expertise as well as tooling for ELF image generation used in production flashes. He combines hands-on systems programming with DevOps and release engineering instincts, favoring pragmatic fixes that reduce build complexity and improve security posture. Notably, he blends embedded-device experience with cloud-scale OS maintenance, making him effective across the stack from microcontrollers to Kubernetes-hosted container images.
3 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School, High School at International School Basel
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (23)
scripting10
script10
go10
rpm10
build-automation10
sh10
shell10
guava9
cicd9
linux9
bash9
openssl9
vte9
kata-containers9
docker8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azurelinux
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:127 reviews, 3 commits, 104 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Dallas primarily focused on enhancing the build process and system architecture. Their contributions included adding an option to build packages for specific architectures like arm64 and x86_64, along with related cross-toolchain integration for RPM package generation. Further work involved integrating and upgrading external dependencies (e.g. OPA and OpenSSL) and implementing patches to address security vulnerabilities, specifically for CVE-2023-3817. They also added a new package and updated some existing build scripts.
cdrappliancesvmslinux-oslinux
dallasd1/CBL-Mariner
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Contributions:49 pushes, 13 branches in 6 months
vmsapplianceslinux-oslinuxedge
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