Dan Cavallaro
Software Engineer at Defakto Security
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolDan Cavallaro is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable systems across cloud, networking, and embedded platforms. He has deep experience at Amazon driving demand forecasting, customer protection, and Project Kuiper infrastructure, and more recently led platform engineering for NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU fleets at a stealth startup. Currently focused on non-human identity at Defakto Security, he blends security-first thinking with low-level systems work—firmware, OS image creation, and container runtime integration. Comfortable across the stack, he’s proven at operational lifecycle engineering and automation for complex distributed fleets. Based in New Jersey, he brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to hard systems problems and a track record of shipping production-critical services at internet scale.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Science & Engineering at Bucknell University
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Github contributions (5)
dancavallaro/rack-requestid
Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
dancavallaro/rpi-config
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:192 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 3 months
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