Dan Streetman
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Streetman is a Principal Software Engineer with 26 years of experience building secure, production-grade infrastructure and system software, currently based in Raleigh and leading engineering efforts at Microsoft. He has deep low-level expertise from long tenures at IBM and Canonical, and a track record of shipping security-sensitive fixes and architectural improvements for Linux distributions and cloud platforms. An active open-source contributor, Dan has enhanced TPM2 functionality in the widely used systemd project and applied security patches to Azure Linux components, demonstrating both cryptographic systems knowledge and practical vulnerability remediation. His electrical and electronics engineering background informs a systems-minded approach to problems that span hardware trust roots to cloud service delivery. Colleagues rely on him for tackling tricky permission, serialization, and policy-handling issues that are easy to overlook but critical in secure, distributed systems.
26 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (15)
c1710
kernel10
memory-management10
tpm10
kernel-module10
c1110
linux-kernel10
curl10
nghttp210
patch10
security10
cryptography9
openssl9
linux9
boot7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azurelinux
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:44 reviews, 1 commit, 46 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dan's commits primarily focus on applying security patches to the vendored `curl` and `nghttp2` libraries, addressing known vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-23914 and CVE-2023-44487, respectively). Additionally, the user has made a commit that includes the verification of the license. These contributions demonstrate a proactive approach to maintaining the security posture of the Azure Linux OS.
cdrappliancesvmslinux-oslinux
ddstreet/systemd
Dec 2016 - Mar 2025
systemd upstream
Contributions:2 PRs, 2319 pushes, 345 branches in 8 years 5 months
linuxsystemdupstream
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