Daniel Ruggeri
Executive Vice President at The Apache Software Foundation
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Ruggeri is an Executive Vice President and Distinguished Engineer with 14+ years of hands-on and leadership experience designing and automating large-scale internet, cloud, and datacenter infrastructures. He has led multi-hundred-million-dollar programs at Mastercard—winning CTO and CEO Choice awards for transformational backbone, load-balancer, and certificate automation—and now applies servant leadership at The Apache Software Foundation. A longtime open source evangelist and contributor, he has made substantive code and configuration improvements to flagship projects like Apache HTTP Server and Terraform provider tooling, pairing deep protocol-level insight with pragmatic automation. Comfortable moving between vendor negotiations and low-level source code review, he drives standards, governance, and zero-touch operational pipelines that reduce drift and accelerate delivery. He also teaches and consults on open source practices and licensing, blending academic instruction with production-proven engineering.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor, Management Information Systems, General at University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Github Skills (15)
c1710
terraformer10
rest-api10
go10
apache-http-server10
c1110
terraform10
testing10
devops9
tls139
ssl9
tls129
configuration-management9
bash8
network-security8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Mastercard/terraform-provider-restapi
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
A terraform provider to manage objects in a RESTful API
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:27 releases, 14 reviews, 187 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the development and maintenance of a Terraform provider for a RESTful API. Their work included setting up sane defaults within the release scripts and integrating with the project's automated release pipeline. They also created a fake HTTP server for testing and added a new datasource, demonstrating expertise in API interaction and testing methodologies. Additional updates included supporting different HTTP methods and query parameters, indicating further expansion of the provider's capabilities.
restrestful-apiterraform-provider
apache/httpd
Jul 2011 - Aug 2020
Mirror of Apache HTTP Server. Issues: http://issues.apache.org
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:206 commits in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed extensively to the Apache HTTP Server project by implementing and documenting a new `AllowOverrideList` directive, which provides fine-grained control over which directives can be configured in per-directory configuration files. They also added a new `SSLProxyMachineCertificateChainFile` directive, enhancing SSL proxy functionality. Further contributions involved modifying existing code to integrate the new features, including changes across multiple core files, thereby demonstrating a deep understanding of the server's architecture.
apacheapache-http-serverhttpd
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