Daniel Deighton
Principal And Co-Founder at Aplura, LLC
Parkville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Deighton is a Principal and Co-Founder with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and auditing email, web, network, and system security for enterprise environments. He blends certified security expertise with deep mastery of open-source technologies—Red Hat Linux, Apache, Tomcat and virtualization—to build pragmatic, auditable defenses and operational tooling. His career includes long-term security engineering and webmaster roles at the Space Telescope Science Institute where he implemented infrastructure-level protections and improved security practices across heterogeneous platforms. As the founder of Aplura, LLC and former owner of Deightime, LLC, he pairs consulting agility with enterprise-grade delivery and a track record of reducing real operational risk. Based in Parkville, Maryland, he is comfortable bridging system administration, firewall and network policy design, and application-layer security to produce measurable improvements in posture.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Engineering, BS, Engineering at University of MichiganBerkley High School
Github Skills (15)
query-language9
obsidian8
typescript7
markdown7
high-performance6
todoist5
json4
geolocation4
kanban4
data-access3
jira3
atlassian3
mqtt2
http2
materialize1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aplura/splunkforwarder-deployment-config
May 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
Ledaryy/obsidian-todoist-completed-tasks
Sep 2022 - May 2023
Obsidian plugin to display the completed tasks
Contributions:1 PR, 5 comments, 3 issues in 8 months
obsidianobsidian-mdobsidian-plugin
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