Dalton Hubble
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDalton Hubble is a seasoned infrastructure engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native and bare-metal systems from San Francisco. As founder of Poseidon Laboratories and a former senior engineering leader at Lyft, he has led large-scale observability, provisioning, and Kubernetes platforms for engineering organizations. He contributes widely to open source—authoring projects like Typhoon and Matchbox that automate PXE booting and bare-metal provisioning—and maintains developer-facing tools such as deploybot.app. At CoreOS and in prominent repos like bootkube and Kubernetes monitoring mixins, he’s focused on robust, repeatable cluster deployment, multi-cluster observability, and upgrade-safe infrastructure. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, he blends deep systems engineering with product instincts, frequently solving low-level boot and orchestration problems most teams leave to vendors. Colleagues know him as “friends with the machines”: pragmatic, test-driven, and tuned to the operational edge of distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
SB Computer Science and Engineering, SB Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
api-rest10
json10
kubernetes10
docker10
system-configuration10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
configuration-management10
authentication10
user-authentication10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
grafana10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
poseidon/matchbox
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
Network boot and provision Fedora CoreOS and Flatcar Linux clusters
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 8 reviews, 1009 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Dalton's commits focused on configuring and automating the deployment of infrastructure for a cluster of machines using PXE. These commits involved setting up a minimal PXE server and provisioning Fedora CoreOS and Flatcar Linux clusters. They implemented scripts to configure Vagrant PXE with config.rb, which included the setup of dnsmasq and a HTTP server. The commits also added support for a Pixiecore server and an iPXE server, as well as related configuration files.
flatcarflatcar-linuxclustersfirecrackergrpc
dghubble/sling
Apr 2015 - Dec 2022
A Go HTTP client library for creating and sending API requests
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 86 commits, 90 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dalton contributed to the development of the Go HTTP client library. Their work included implementing key features such as request building, method setters, and JSON encoding for request bodies. They also added features to handle HTTP methods beyond GET and POST, including PUT, PATCH, and DELETE. Furthermore, the user expanded the library with support for query parameters, basic authentication, and OAuth2, improving the library's utility.
golangapiapi-clientgo-httpclient-library
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