Summary
Daniel Curran is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native systems and tooling, currently driving platform and operator development at Red Hat from Austin/San Antonio. He blends deep backend skills in Node.js, Python, and Go with extensive DevOps mastery—Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes—and has hands-on experience authoring Kubernetes operators. His background includes security-focused development leadership at ManTech and long-tenured cloud operations at Rackspace, giving him a pragmatic perspective on reliability and secure deployments. Certified as an AWS Professional DevOps Engineer and a SAFe practitioner, he’s comfortable scaling teams and systems while keeping delivery predictable. An engineer who spans code and infrastructure, he often shapes the automation that turns complex architectures into repeatable platforms.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certified AWS Professional DevOps Engineer, Certified AWS Professional DevOps Engineer at Amazon Web Services
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Texas at San Antonio
Certified SAFe Practitioner, Certified SAFe Practitioner at SAFe by Scaled Agile, Inc.