Dylan Silva
Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDylan Silva is a Senior Principal Product Manager in San Francisco with 13 years of experience designing and operating SaaS infrastructure and automation platforms. At Red Hat he leads product strategy and user experience for the Ansible Automation Platform, combining hands-on DevOps chops with product leadership. His background spans site reliability, deployment automation, and monitoring across companies like AppDynamics and Intuit, giving him deep expertise in observability tools (New Relic, Splunk, Wily) and deployment systems (Jenkins, Puppet, Chef). He has contributed to the widely used Ansible project by improving documentation, module metadata, and installation guidance, reflecting a focus on developer experience and operational clarity. Dylan trained originally as a bio-engineer, an unusual foundation that informs his analytical approach to complex systems and failure-mode analysis. He is passionate about evolving application operations and exploring next-generation monitoring and mobile-first SaaS experiences.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diegodiploma obtained Bio-Chemical Engineering, diploma obtained Bio-Chemical Engineering at San Diego Mesa College
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Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
ansible-galaxy10
documentation10
ansible10
yaml8
community-management7
python6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Dec 2016 - Nov 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 30 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to the documentation and configuration of the Ansible project. The user updated roadmap documents, release schedules, and module support pages, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information for developers and users. Additionally, the user modified module metadata, transitioning modules from core to community support, and implemented changes to the module support documentation reflecting these changes. The user also updated installation instructions.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
thaumos/ansible
Dec 2016 - May 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.
Contributions:2 PRs, 105 pushes, 61 branches in 2 years 5 months
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
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