Daniel Kerns
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Kerns is a seasoned software engineering leader with 10+ years in executive and director roles and a multi-decade background in systems, compilers, and cloud-native products. He has led teams that built a cloud-native CCaaS platform at Avaya, launched Rook as a CNCF incubator project while at Quantum, and architected the adaptive learning platform that scaled DreamBox to serve over 15% of K–6 U.S. students. Comfortable toggling between hands-on technical work and board-level strategy, he blends deep engineering craft with a rare commercial sensibility for markets, customers, and product strategy. He excels at stepping into or creating teams to solve business‑critical problems, especially where distributed systems, storage, and cloud infrastructure intersect. Based in Seattle, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a track record of turning research-quality technology into operational, revenue-generating platforms.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyStanford University Graduate School of BusinessHigh School, High School at The American School of the Hague
English
Github Skills (11)
ceph10
storage10
kubernetes10
docker10
cloud-native10
etcd10
go7
avaya6
scheduling4
mesos2
kubernetes-monitoring1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DanKerns/rook
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
open-clouddistributed-storagekubernetesstoragecloud-native
DanKerns/rook.github.io
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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