Danny Knights
Staff Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDanny Knights is a Staff Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp with a first-class degree in Network Computing and around 5 years in cloud and infrastructure-focused roles complemented by earlier network engineering and systems development experience. He has progressed through technical architect and solutions engineering positions at Natilik, VCE, DELL EMC customers, and major UK operators (BT, Sky), blending deep networking know-how with public cloud and HashiCorp tooling expertise. Danny holds multiple Cisco, public cloud, and HashiCorp certifications and is known for translating complex enterprise requirements into practical, repeatable infrastructure solutions. Based in Norwich, he brings both hands-on design experience (from FTTC/FTTP and Ethernet networks) and consultative customer-facing delivery skills, making him effective across pre-sales, implementation, and operational stages. An engineer who moved from carrier-grade network design into cloud-native platform engineering, he pairs protocol-level understanding with modern infrastructure automation practices.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Network Computing Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, BSc (Hons) Network Computing Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at University of SunderlandNorwich School
Github Skills (22)
hashicorp10
security10
access-management10
zero-trust10
hashicorp-boundary9
terraform-provider8
access-control8
terraform7
devtools6
raspberry-pi5
bootstrap5
k3s5
devops4
go4
k8s4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dannyjknights/hcpb-secure-access-instruqt
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
Repo that deploys EC2, RDS, Windows, configures HCPb + Vault, enables SSH session recording and application credential injection
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 9 months
HashiCorp-Partner-Lab/terraform-boundary-partner-boundary-config
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:17 releases, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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