Daniel Krook
Senior Director Of Developer Experience at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Krook is a senior software leader who currently heads Developer Experience at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, guiding support for maintainers and users across 175+ open source projects. He brings a track record of productizing open source into commercial cloud offerings from his years as a Principal Cloud Architect at IBM, where he helped ISVs adopt IBM public and private clouds and embed AI into their solutions. Daniel founded and served as CTO for Call for Code, mobilizing half a million participants and spinning up 16 Linux Foundation projects, and he has hands-on full-stack contributions to Call-for-Code repositories. A prolific inventor and recognized technical specialist (dozens of patents and multiple IBM honors), he blends strategic leadership with deep engineering craft—from early DevOps for Cloud Foundry on OpenStack to serverless advocacy for IBM Cloud Functions. He holds a double major in Political Science and International Studies from Trinity College, has dual U.S.–Finnish/EU citizenship, and a global perspective shaped by study abroad in Cuba and South Africa.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor's, International Studies, Political Science, Bachelor's, International Studies, Political Science at Trinity College-HartfordFairfield High School, CT
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Github Skills (5)
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templater8
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
Call-for-Code/Project-Sample
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
A basic GitHub repository example for new Call for Code submissions and those that join the Call for Code with The Linux Foundation initiative.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 83 commits, 59 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the front-end of the project by adding HTML structure and content. They also updated CSS and JavaScript files, indicating a focus on the overall user interface. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase to reflect changes in copyright and project naming, as well as updated content.
templatecall-for-codelinux-foundationsubmissionslinux
krook/serverless-applications-ibm-cloud-functions
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 8 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 months
curriculumibm-cloudserverlesscloud-functionscloud
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