Daniel Garcia
Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
London, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Garcia is a Machine Learning Engineer at Meta with 13 years of experience applying graph neural networks to integrity and recommendation systems while retaining a strong operational focus. He previously led end-to-end ML application delivery at Palo Alto Insight and served as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, modernizing Insights Compliance into containerized microservices on OpenShift. An active open-source contributor to notable projects like Foreman, Katello, and the Fog cloud library, he has deep expertise in provisioning, cloud integrations (OpenStack, DigitalOcean) and automation—having implemented cloud-init, SSH key setup and Ansible/AWX hooks for production provisioning. His background includes scaling infrastructure at CERN for the LHC computing grid and a Master’s from Georgia Tech, combining research rigor with production-grade engineering. Self-described as a “professional neural network nudger,” he excels at bridging ML research and reliable, scalable infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHackNYBachelor, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, Irvine
Spanish, English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (50)
api-doc10
startup10
ruby-rails10
content-management-system10
dockerce10
docker10
foreman10
back-end-development10
kats10
puppeter10
puppet10
plugin-development10
rails10
provisioning10
dockers10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
theforeman/theforeman.org
Jan 2014 - Sep 2018
The new and improved Foreman website.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:140 commits, 195 PRs, 173 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the website's content and structure, focusing on the media/video and article sections. They added and organized various presentations, videos, and articles related to the Foreman project. Furthermore, the user updated the website's design by updating to bootstrap 3.2 and changed the navigation.
foremanimproved
theforeman/community-templates
Mar 2015 - Jul 2018
A place to share templates for various OSes for Foreman's provisioning
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Template Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Template EngineerContributions:19 commits, 27 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the repository by enhancing and maintaining templates used for provisioning various operating systems, specifically focusing on Foreman's provisioning system. Their work included fixing bugs related to template rendering errors, and introducing new templates to support features like Fedora/RHEL Atomic kickstart and PXE provisioning. They also added functionality for setting up SSH keys automatically during provisioning and integrating with cloud-init scripts and Ansible Tower/AWX for post-installation configuration.
placeprovisioningshareforeman
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