Daniel Feldman
Principal Engineer at Stealth Fortune 500 Company
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Feldman is a Principal Engineer and security-focused technologist with over a decade building cloud-native security products across hyperscalers, SaaS vendors, and standards bodies. He co-founded Sentima and has driven SPIFFE adoption through code, conference talks, and IETF-influenced work—contributions that include improving SPIRE's trust bundle handling and downstream X.509 CA/token APIs. At HPE he bridged engineering, sales, and consulting to deploy SPIFFE in high-profile environments including the world's fastest supercomputer and a Nature paper, and now serves as principal security architect at a large public company. Comfortable moving between low-level C++ systems and higher-level identity infrastructure, he pairs deep technical craft with product and go-to-market experience. Based in Minneapolis, he often blends research rigor from his graduate studies with practical engineering that surfaces in open-source implementations and standards.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate studies, Mathematics and Computer Science, Graduate studies, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of MinnesotaComputer Science, Computer Science at Macalester College
Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spiffe/spire
May 2020 - May 2022
The SPIFFE Runtime Environment
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 11 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the SPIRE agent's functionality by introducing a new feature to download the initial trust bundle from a specified HTTPS URL, rather than relying on a static file. This involved modifying the agent configuration to accept a `trustBundleUrl` parameter, adding a download function, and implementing logic to handle the trust bundle retrieval. Additionally, the user contributed to the API refactor by implementing `NewDownstreamX509CA` and `CreateJoinToken` functionality, which included modifying the API definition and adding supporting test cases. This indicates a focus on improving the agent's configuration and supporting the creation of trust tokens.
spiffe
dfeldman/spire
Jan 2020 - May 2022
The SPIFFE Runtime Environment
Contributions:125 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 4 months
cuelangruntimespifferuntime-environment
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