Dan Sneddon
AI Solutions Architect, Principal at Red Hat
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Sneddon is an AI Solutions Architect and Principal with over 30 years of hands-on experience designing networked and distributed systems for large-scale cloud, edge, and hybrid deployments. He has driven core OpenStack and Kubernetes networking features at Red Hat/IBM, authored network reference architectures, and automated complex deployments (including IPv6, SR-IOV, and DPDK) used in production by telecom, healthcare, and public-sector customers. At d-Matrix he now applies that deep infrastructure and SRE expertise to accelerate generative AI inference on novel in-memory compute hardware. His background spans leadership roles from Apple and Twitter to Cloudscaling, where he blended SDN, NFV, and automation to ship reliable releases and high-performance trading and e-commerce networks. An active practitioner in open source deployment tooling, he contributed IPv6 and enhanced testing/backup automation to TripleO heat templates, reflecting a long-standing focus on reproducible, production-ready cloud operations. Based in Oakland, he combines low-level network engineering with strategic architecture and risk-aware security practice to solve large, messy infrastructure problems.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at De Anza CollegeComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at San Francisco State UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Foothill CollegeGeneral Studies, General Studies at Moorpark CollegeComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Stanford Continuing StudiesComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Santa Monica College
English, spanish (limited)
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Github Skills (13)
automation10
automations10
openstack10
jinja210
tripleo10
yaml10
bash9
infrastructure-as-code9
debugging8
cicd8
python7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/tripleo-heat-templates
Apr 2015 - May 2021
RETIRED, Heat templates for deploying OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:107 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on improving the deployment and configuration of the OpenStack environment. They introduced changes to support IPv6 in network templates, including modifications to Jinja2 templates and updates to the network configuration process. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to the deployment scripts, such as backing up configuration files and improving network testing. These contributions focused on automation and troubleshooting capabilities within the TripleO deployment process.
openstack
openstack-archive/os-net-config
Apr 2015 - Jan 2021
RETIRED, Host network configuration tool. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Contributions:56 commits in 5 years 9 months
host-network
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