Dakota Walsh
Senior Software Engineer at Portainer.io
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDakota Walsh is a Senior Software Engineer with four years of full-stack experience, currently based in Dunedin and authorized to work in both New Zealand and the United States. At Portainer.io he has advanced from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer, contributing meaningful UI and backend features to the widely used portainer/portainer project—improving JWT auth, namespace access, and volume UIs while bridging React frontends with Go and Kubernetes APIs. Previously a Senior Integration Engineer at Vodafone, he designed and led complex integration projects and middleware solutions, demonstrating strong system thinking beyond product UI. Dakota’s background includes hands-on IT operations and automation—writing shell scripts to deploy thousands of Chromebooks and tutoring Linux/BASH—so he blends practical ops experience with modern cloud-native development. He’s comfortable shipping across the stack and navigating both product-facing interfaces and platform-level integration challenges.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science, Computer Networking Technology, Associate of Applied Science, Computer Networking Technology at HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College
Github Skills (13)
uid10
kubernetes10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
apidoc9
go9
api9
html9
docker9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
portainer/portainer
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:174 reviews, 34 commits, 155 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dakota primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and extending functionality within the Portainer project. Their contributions included fixing theme application, extending the JWT auth token expiration, improving volume details UI, and implementing namespace access features. They also addressed various bug fixes and UI improvements across different components, indicating a strong understanding of the project's architecture and development processes. The user demonstrates familiarity with both frontend (HTML, Javascript, React) and backend (Go, Kubernetes API interactions) development.
dockerkubernetesdocker-swarmuidocker-deployment
portainer/compose-unpacker
Aug 2022 - Feb 2024
A tool used to deploy Compose stacks from Git on remote environments
Contributions:3 reviews in 1 year 6 months
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