Daneyon Hansen
Principal Software Engineer at solo.io
California, United States
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Top SchoolDaneyon Hansen is a Principal Software Engineer based in California with over two decades of experience building distributed systems and more than a decade focused on cloud-native and open source networking projects. He’s shipped production-grade features across major projects like Cilium, Contour, OpenShift operators, and Gateway API—contributing to eBPF-based networking, Envoy/Ingress controllers, and Kubernetes networking primitives. Known for bridging backend engineering and DevOps, he improves APIs, CI/CD, and installer/network validation while also adding thoughtful API refactors and proxy readiness features. At companies from Cisco to Red Hat, Tetrate, and solo.io he’s combined hands-on coding with product-facing responsibilities, including IPv6 and proxy integrations. Beyond code, he’s a steady OSS maintainer who likes “making a difference one line of code at a time,” often surfacing nuanced networking fixes that prevent subtle production failures.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associates in Science Information Systems, Associates in Science Information Systems at College of DuPageTechnical Certifications Microsoft and Cisco Systems, Technical Certifications Microsoft and Cisco Systems at Northwestern Business College
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Github Skills (50)
env10
ss10
ingress-controller10
network-configuration10
kubernetes10
web-proxy10
ssl10
envoyproxy10
apidoc10
ebpf10
api-design10
testing10
ca-api-gateway10
sslv310
proxy10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/gateway
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Manages Envoy Proxy as a Standalone or Kubernetes-based Application Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:619 reviews, 114 commits, 344 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Daneyon primarily contributed to the implementation and development of the Config API, including creating deepcopy functions and code generation tasks. They also worked on setting up and maintaining the build process and dependencies, as evidenced by their modifications to the Makefile and go.mod files. The user also updated the project's API imports and provided integration tests.
envoy-proxyenvoyproxyapplication-gatewaystandalone
kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
Repository for the next iteration of composite service (e.g. Ingress) and load balancing APIs.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:291 reviews, 49 commits, 84 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Daneyon primarily focused on updating and refining the documentation, addressing issues related to existing documentation, and incorporating new resources within the documentation. They added new documentation, refactored API types, and updated the request workflow. The user also made several code changes, changing HTTPRoute hostname fields, improving the Makefile, and fixing default TLS mode behavior.
k8s-sig-networkload-balancingingresskubernetesprometheus
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