Daniel Gozalo
Senior Engineering Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Gozalo is a Senior Engineering Manager based in New York who builds and scales CI/CD and developer experience platforms for large engineering organizations. With seven years of leadership and hands-on engineering across Datadog, Red Hat, CloudBees and Jenkins X, he has grown teams, driven architecture overhauls, and scaled build infrastructure to millions of weekly builds while cutting costs and improving security. He led work on Jenkins X and cloud-native pipelines for Kubernetes, blending deep DevOps, CI platform design and GitOps expertise with practical SRE practices. Daniel specializes in secure SDLC foundations—designing change management, dependency and IAM systems—and often pairs platform delivery with measurable KPIs to reduce feedback loops and operational risk. He combines full-stack engineering fluency with a track record of migrating large organizations to more secure, observable CI ecosystems and enabling AI-assisted developer workflows.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc in Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering, BSc in Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering at Udima Universidad a Distancia de Madrid
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
jenkins-x10
tekton10
cicd10
gitops10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
pipeline10
cloud-native10
testing9
command-line-interface9
continuous-integration9
continuous-delivery9
go-testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jenkins-x/jx
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Jenkins X provides automated CI+CD for Kubernetes with Preview Environments on Pull Requests using Cloud Native pipelines from Tekton
Role in this project:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 80 PRs, 2 branches in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Jenkins X project by implementing and modifying features related to application deployment and management within Kubernetes, focusing on improving the `jx` command-line interface. This included enhancements to the `get apps` and `upgrade apps` commands, particularly regarding app labels and GitOps integration. The user also addressed issues related to Helm charts and the GitOps workflow, modifying environment configurations, and improving the reliability and functionality of the deployment processes. Further contributions were centered around Jenkins X's features, especially concerning its use of Tekton pipelines, by adding tests and refactoring to the Prow config merging.
tektonopenshiftrolloutcontinuous-integrationjenkins
dgozalo/jx
Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
Jenkins X provides automated CI+CD for Kubernetes with Preview Environments on Pull Requests using Jenkins, Tekton, Knative, Prow, Skaffold and Helm
Contributions:200 pushes, 34 branches in 11 months
tektonprowknativecdcontinuous-integration
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