Corey Daley
Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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RockstarCorey Daley is a Staff Software Engineer with two decades of hands-on experience and a recent focus on cloud-native and security-hardened container platforms. Currently at Chainguard after leadership and principal engineering roles at Red Hat, he has designed and shipped core OpenShift build, image-registry, and pipeline features while leading cross-functional teams. He’s a pragmatic full-stack engineer who bridges back-end APIs, DevOps tooling, and CI/CD integrations—contributing notable improvements to widely used OpenShift projects such as source-to-image and the Jenkins client plugin. Known for practical security work, he has mitigated CVEs and implemented provider-specific storage provisioning and secret handling for container workloads. Based in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, he pairs deep systems knowledge with developer advocacy and documentation, often improving usability (build timing, CLI refinements) alongside core functionality. Colleagues rely on him for steady technical leadership, robust build workflows, and thoughtful automation that reduces operational friction.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (34)
kubernetes10
docker10
apidoc10
kubernetes-apiserver10
scripting10
groovy10
api-design10
command-line-interface10
build-system10
dockers10
cicd10
client-go10
script10
go10
openshift10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/source-to-image
Feb 2017 - Dec 2022
A tool for building artifacts from source and injecting into container images
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 12 reviews, 22 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Corey made significant contributions to the `openshift/source-to-image` repository by overhauling core functionalities, updating documentation, and enhancing the build process. They introduced build timing information to provide insights into the efficiency of builds. Additionally, they made changes to support dash shell and to handle blank lines in the .s2iignore file, suggesting a focus on improving the tool's robustness and user experience. The user also refactored the S2I command line interface and fixed several minor issues with build steps and configurations.
container-image
openshift/jenkins-client-plugin
Sep 2017 - May 2022
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 56 PRs, 10 branches in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Corey primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `jenkins-client-plugin` to interact with OpenShift environments. They implemented support for HTTP/HTTPS URLs in the `openshift.process` function and introduced `openshift.cluster()` to retrieve the cluster URL. Furthermore, the user added features such as `openshift.patch` and related methods, including tests and updated documentation, and improved the DSL syntax to be more consistent. These changes involved modifying Groovy code, the main language of the plugin, and updating example usage, illustrating a deep understanding of the plugin's core features and their application within a CI/CD context.
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