Daniella Freese
Engineering Manager - Service Catalog - Konnect
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniella Freese is an engineering manager and cloud-native architect with a decade of experience building and operationalizing Kubernetes, CI/CD, and DevOps solutions for enterprise customers. Currently leading the Service Catalog for Kong Konnect, she blends hands-on engineering with partner-facing roles to integrate API management and mesh platforms across cloud and ISV ecosystems. Her background includes six years consulting in the Red Hat/OpenShift stack—Ansible, JBoss/Fuse, and middleware—where she focused on day-2 operations, app delivery, and automation. Trained as a scientist, she brings rigorous research instincts from award-winning plant ecophysiology and bioinformatics work into system design and observability. Known for translating business needs into pragmatic technical strategies, she also enjoys educating technical and executive audiences through writing and speaking. Based in Charlotte, NC, she balances technical leadership with family life and outdoor interests like hiking and gardening.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Professional MS., Bioinformatics, Professional MS., Bioinformatics at University of North Carolina at CharlotteMaster's Degree, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Master's Degree, Plant and Environmental Sciences at Clemson University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (22)
catalog10
controller10
hat10
gorilla10
operator10
kubernetes-operator9
ingress9
marketplace9
documentation9
k8s9
kong9
microservices8
kubernetes-ingress8
ingress-controller8
kubernetes8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kong-apisecops-redhat
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Self-paced demo of APISecOps with ROSA and Kong Konnect
Contributions:53 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
Kong/terraform-aws-eks-blueprint-konnect-runtime-instance
Jun 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 6 PRs in 3 months
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