About
I work for Red Hat in platform engineering. As of 14-Nov-2020, I have been at Red Hat for 15 years. I have worked on a number of projects at Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, I worked for Internet Security Systems (acquired by IBM after I left to go work for Red Hat), assorted Solaris shops, some phone companies, and I was a core team member of Slackware Linux employed by Walnut Creek CDROM (later BSDi). I have been involved in the Linux and open source communities for the entirety of my career.
Current projects:
- Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) member
- rpminspect
- pyparted
- Fedora CI and developer tools
- Maintaining old software in Fedora and EPEL that everyone has long since stopped caring about
- DevConf.US volunteer wrangling
- Various non-work things at https://github.com/dcantrell (ok, probably some work stuff there too)
Past projects:
- Anaconda from Fedora Core 4 through post-RHEL-7 (forget which Fedora release)
- Multiple networking subsystems in Anaconda
- s390x installer work
- DHCPv6 through wide-dhcpv6 and later contributing to ISC DHCP so Fedora (and RHEL) could use it directly
- Various packaging and imaging tools
- Upstream maintainer of GNU Parted
- pykickstart
- pyparted overhaul
Misc
I live in Medford, Massachusetts and work from Red Hat's Boston office.
Contact
- Work Email: dcantrell AT redhat DOT com
- Other Email: david DOT l DOT cantrell AT gmail DOT com
- IRC: dcantrell on FreeNode
- GPG key: 0x62977BB9C841B965/08F7 C8B3 C621 950C 138F 7661 6297 7BB9 C841 B965
- Fedora Account: dcantrell
- Personal Site: https://www.burdell.org/
- IMDb Profile: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10345412/