Daniel Fox
Senior Build-Release Engineer at Tigera
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarDaniel Fox is a Senior Build-Release Engineer based in Vancouver with 17 years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and operating scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. He excels at systems architecture—networking, automated deployments, fault-tolerant distribution—and has built custom in-house deployment systems, automated OS installs for bare metal and VMs, and critical monitoring and backup tooling. His background spans startups to enterprise security vendors (including DevOps at Fortinet and build-release leadership at Tigera), bringing practical experience in keeping large services resilient under production load. An active contributor to open-source UI work, he improved GTK terminal UX and accessibility in the Ghostty project, showing attention to developer-facing ergonomics as well as backend reliability. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex operational requirements into repeatable, automated systems that reduce toil and increase developer velocity.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (19)
ui-design10
uid10
gtk10
front-end-development10
user-interface9
python9
graphical-user-interface9
terminal-emulator9
css9
zig8
macos6
linker6
atomic6
closures6
daemon6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ghostty-org/ghostty
Dec 2024 - Nov 2025
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 PRs, 12 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel focused on enhancing the user interface of the terminal emulator, specifically within the GTK implementation. They implemented features like a monospace font for the paste preview, exposed and focused the clipboard cancel button, and made the paste button the default action. Additionally, the user added CSS classes for destructive and suggested actions, improving the visual feedback, and addressed a layout issue regarding older Adwaita tab bars. Their work directly involved modifying UI components and improving user interaction.
gpu-accelerationterminal-emulator
danudey/operator
Mar 2023 - Apr 2026
Kubernetes operator for installing Calico and Calico Enterprise
Contributions:63 pushes, 127 branches, 6 tags in 3 years 1 month
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