Daniel Allegood
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Allegood is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and automation, currently driving platform work at Capital One from Falls Church, VA. He brings deep hands-on expertise across Terraform, Kubernetes, and multi-IaaS deployments, having contributed notable backend and vSphere provider improvements to the widely used HashiCorp Terraform project. His background spans complex systems roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Qualcomm, where he delivered container-native platforms, message-broker provisioning services, and automation that improved stability and operational efficiency. Known for pragmatic engineering and infrastructure-focused problem solving, he blends low-level systems debugging with cloud orchestration to move features from prototype to production reliably.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Github Skills (16)
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
vsphere10
go10
cloud-infrastructure10
vmware10
openstack10
vmware-workstation10
aac10
terraform10
vmware-tools10
virtualization10
apidoc9
cloud-computing9
api9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Cloud Engineer
Backend Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:20 commits, 23 PRs, 145 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed significantly to the `hashicorp/terraform` repository, primarily focusing on the `vsphere` provider. They implemented features for managing virtual disks, including specifying VMDK paths, controller types, and the ability to create and update disks. The user also improved existing functionality with bug fixes and enhancements related to disk handling and controller creation. Their contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure management with Terraform.
versionedconfiguration-filescloud-managementawscloud
dkalleg/terraform
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:55 pushes, 16 branches in 4 months
devopsinfrastructureinfrastructure-as-codeawsterraform
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