Don Penney
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDon Penney is a Principal Software Engineer based in Ottawa with over two decades of continuous software development experience and eight years in senior engineering roles. Currently at Red Hat, he brings deep telecom and embedded systems expertise from long tenures at Wind River, Genband, and Nortel, consistently progressing into higher-impact technical roles. He specializes in designing and delivering resilient, production-grade systems for infrastructure and communications platforms, with a practical focus on maintainability and operational reliability. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical leader who pairs hands-on coding with architecture and mentorship, shepherding complex projects from prototyping to scale. An Acadia University computer science graduate, he blends legacy systems know-how with modern open-source enterprise practices, often navigating the intersection of carrier-grade requirements and cloud-native engineering.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BCS, Computer Science, BCS, Computer Science at Acadia University
Github Skills (60)
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
tooling10
commons10
container-runtime-interface10
runc10
openshift10
documentation10
sdn9
system-configuration9
cnf9
minecraft9
docker9
e2e9
operator9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
donpenney/cri-o
Apr 2022 - Jun 2023
Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
Contributions:51 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 2 months
containerscontainerdcontainer-runtime-interfaceruntimeinitiative
donpenney/telco-ran-tools
Jul 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:98 pushes, 67 branches in 1 year 4 months
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