Summary
Daryl Walleck is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling test automation, backend services, and cloud-native infrastructure. He blends hands-on coding in Python, C#, Node.js, and Java with leadership in shifting organizations to modern testing stacks—driving Playwright adoptions and on-demand test environments at companies like Planet and Contrast Security. Comfortable across AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Terraform, he has a track record of improving test reliability, observability, and developer velocity through tooling and aggregated test-result systems. His background includes deep OpenStack QA work and creating frameworks that were adopted upstream, showing an ability to influence open-source and cross-team standards. Based in San Antonio, he pairs an M.S. in Computer Science with a pragmatic focus on quality and developer experience that often surfaces in behind-the-scenes infrastructure and CI/CD improvements.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at DePaul University