Kyle Penfound
Solutions Engineer at Dagger
Fishers, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Penfound is a Solutions Engineer with 11 years of hands-on DevOps and backend experience, currently helping teams adopt containerized CI/CD runtimes at Dagger. He built core schema and operations for the open-source Dagger runtime, authored Go SDK examples, and contributed multi-architecture build patterns that bridge developer workflows and production pipelines. Previously he shaped release and infrastructure engineering at HashiCorp and delivered DevOps and server-side systems across startups and enterprise teams. Based in Fishers, Indiana, Kyle combines low-level systems experience (C/C++) with practical cloud-native tooling, making him fluent across build, release, and runtime concerns. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex infrastructure challenges into documented, reproducible workflows that scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering at University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa
English
Github Skills (15)
go10
devops10
cicd10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
container9
graphql9
agent8
ai7
dockers7
docker7
caching7
argo-workflows7
workflow-automation7
workflow-engine7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dagger/dagger
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
An open-source runtime for composable workflows. Great for AI agents and CI/CD.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:195 reviews, 42 commits, 64 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the core schema and operations of the Dagger runtime, focusing on the definition and presentation of data structures for command execution, filesystem interaction, and project metadata. They also implemented examples demonstrating the usage of the Go SDK, and improved the documentation. Furthermore, the user worked on multi-architecture build examples demonstrating their understanding of CI/CD.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcontinuous-testingbuildkitdeployment
kpenfound/hello-nomad
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 1 month
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