William Daly
Enterprise GTM at Cursor
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Daly is an enterprise GTM leader based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience helping organizations adopt AI to ship software faster. He pairs a proven track record in high‑stakes enterprise sales—multiple President’s Club and Salesperson of the Year awards and record ACV deals—with hands‑on technical credibility from meaningful open‑source contributions to projects like Cilium and Inspektor Gadget. That blend lets him translate complex cloud-native and eBPF-based networking and observability concepts into pragmatic buying and implementation decisions for large customers. Comfortable at the intersection of product, engineering, and revenue, he has a knack for turning technical nuance into measurable business outcomes. Unusually for a GTM leader, he has contributed backend and DevOps code that fixed subtle kernel-level issues and enabled delegated IPAM in a major CNI project, giving him rare empathy for engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Business Studies BA (Hons) Business, Business Studies BA (Hons) Business at Liverpool John Moores University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
git10
report-builder10
kubernetes10
python10
ebpf10
testing10
kubernetes-networking10
cni10
ip10
command-line-interface10
object-oriented-programming10
networking10
bpf10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Bachmann1234/diff_cover
May 2013 - Jan 2015
Automatically find diff lines that need test coverage.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on defining and implementing the core components of the `diff_cover` tool. This included defining abstract base classes and concrete implementations for key functionalities like coverage reporting, diff reporting, and report generation. Furthermore, the user designed and implemented the command-line interface, including argument parsing and report generation logic. The user's work lays the groundwork for the tool's ability to analyze code coverage based on diffs.
linestestingneedcoveragetest-coverage
cilium/cilium
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:51 reviews, 22 PRs, 157 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the Cilium CNI plugin, focusing on implementing and integrating delegated IPAM support. Their work involved modifying the CNI configuration parser to include and utilize an `IPAM.type` field, enabling the invocation of a delegated IPAM plugin. Furthermore, the user implemented a no-op IPAM allocator for this delegated plugin mode, ensuring seamless integration with the CNI. They also updated the CNI code to delegate IPAM operations when IPAMDelegatedPlugin is enabled, and made several code modifications to support this new feature.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
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