David Darrah
Product Owner - Container Runtime Tools at Red Hat
Dover, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Darrah is a product-focused engineering leader with 30+ years in quality, automation, and tool development and over a decade driving container runtime quality and delivery at Red Hat. As Product Owner for Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo he bridges product management, engineering, and community stakeholders to prioritize work that boosts adoption and business value while advocating for open-source projects internally. He previously led cross-geography test and quality teams, built model-driven architectures to cut maintenance costs, and created sophisticated automated test harnesses and fuzzing tools for embedded and enterprise systems. Known for increasing automation coverage and predictability in testing, he blends hands-on engineering chops with strategic product stewardship and a practical background in mechanical engineering. An understated strength is his history of translating legacy test suites into modern, maintainable automation frameworks that scale across teams and products.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
TimberlaneBachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (20)
podman10
kubernetes10
docker10
image-processing10
linux10
signing10
oci-container10
harbor10
docker-registry10
container-image9
oci-image3
container3
security1
ios1
container-registry1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ddarrah/containers-ansible
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
using ansible to test container images
Contributions:42 pushes in 3 days
containersansibledockercontainer-imagescontainerization
ddarrah/atomic
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 day
containersdocker-imageinstallingdockercontainer-images
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