Darron Froese
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Confidential Blockchain Project
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolDarron Froese is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure across companies like Dapper Labs, Salesforce, and Datadog. He blends deep SRE and DevOps expertise—Kubernetes, GKE, Terraform, Kafka, Redis Enterprise, Vault and Prometheus—with hands-on systems engineering, having pioneered migrations (e.g., replacing GCP Memorystore with Redis Enterprise) and led policy-driven cluster governance with Kyverno. An active open-source contributor and tooling builder, he improved key Chef cookbooks for Consul and Datadog and created octohost to streamline builds and chat-ops. Comfortable across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, he pairs platform strategy with practical automation and testing discipline, and outside work he channels curiosity into projects in Golang and scuba diving.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Religious Education Theology/Theological Studies, Bachelor of Religious Education Theology/Theological Studies at Briercrest Schools
English
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Github Skills (20)
package-management10
configuration-management10
chef-client10
consul10
automation10
yaml10
chef-solo10
automations10
serverspec10
devops10
apt9
upstart9
docker8
cpp-templates8
apptemplates8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/consul
Nov 2014 - Jul 2015
Development repository for the consul cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 8 months
Contributions summary:Darron primarily contributed to the configuration and automation aspects of the Consul cookbook. They enhanced the service configuration, added package installation methods using `packagecloud`, and modified the default attributes. Additionally, they added configuration options for Upstart to improve the service's behavior. These changes indicate a focus on improving the installation, management, and overall operational aspects of Consul.
cookbookchef-resourceconsulmanaged-by-terraformchef
DataDog/chef-datadog
Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
Chef cookbook for Datadog Agent & Integrations
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 3 branches in 10 months
Contributions summary:Darron primarily focused on improving the test and configuration aspects of the Datadog Chef cookbook. They replaced Bats tests with Serverspec tests, added TestKitchen tests for integration, and updated configuration templates for integrations like Consul and etcd. Additionally, the user implemented changes to support HTTPS for the repository installation, including the addition of apt-transport-https.
datadog-agentcookbookagentintegrationschef-resource
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