Danny Allen
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarDanny Canter is a systems software engineer with six years of experience building and hardening platform and container technologies, currently focused on platform architecture at Apple in Seattle. He previously drove VM‑isolated container features at Microsoft—leading HostProcess work—and has deep experience across Linux and Windows container runtimes. An active open-source contributor to the SONiC network OS, he’s implemented back-end and DevOps improvements from IPv6 mirror table DSCP rules and SAI/Redis interfaces to buildimage automation and test infrastructure. Danny bridges hardware-facing platform work with orchestration, debugging, and automation, able to move fixes from database integration to CI and device-level behavior. Pragmatic and hands-on, he enjoys telling computers how to behave—and then tracking down why they don’t.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (39)
dockerce10
acl210
docker10
c-language10
sonic10
pytest10
python10
back-end-development10
redis10
test-cases10
testcase10
net10
acl10
abstraction10
abstraction-layer10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-swss
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
SONiC Switch State Service (SwSS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:83 reviews, 85 commits, 153 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Danny Allen's contributions centered around enhancing the SONiC Switch State Service (SwSS). He implemented features related to mirror table functionality, specifically addressing ACL configuration and enabling DSCP rules on IPv6 mirror tables. His work involved creating utility classes for flex counters, and integrating support for drop counters. These changes included modifications to core orchestrator logic and integration with the database, indicating a focus on back-end development within the SONiC framework.
sonicswitch
sonic-net/sonic-mgmt
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Role in this project:Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end & Test Automation EngineerContributions:182 reviews, 99 commits, 216 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Danny focused on developing and testing the mirroring of network traffic within the SONiC network operating system. They implemented test cases to verify the correct mirroring of ARP and ICMPv6 packets, ensuring proper functionality. The user also contributed to porting existing test tasks to the pytest framework, improving the testing infrastructure. Additional contributions include refactoring of the ASIC checks and fixing failures related to swap syncd and COPP tests to ensure stable functionality.
configuration-managementansibleconfigurationsonic
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