Daniel Farrell is a Software Engineer on Red Hat’s SDN Team, where he contributes to upstream OpenDaylight and OPNFV. He has been involved in SDN’s development since it emerged from Stanford, including early OpenFlow and OpenStack work. During ODL’s Helium release cycle he bootstrapped ODL’s performance efforts. In Lithium, he focused on building ODL’s upstream delivery pipeline, including RPMs, Vagrant base boxes, containers, an Ansible role and a Puppet module. He’s now the PTL of ODL Integration/Packaging and OPNFV CPerf, as well as a committer to ODL Integration/Test and an ODL TSC member.

Daniel has given talks at LinuxCon North America 2014+15, LinuxCon Europe 2015, LinuxCon Japan 2016, Open Networking Summit 2015+16, OpenDaylight Summit 2015+16, OPNFV Summit 2015+16, All Things Open 2015 and numerous small FOSS conferences.