| Daniel Mellado | |
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| Fedora Information | |
| FAS name: | dmellado |
| Fedora email: | dmellado@fedoraproject.org |
| IRC nick: | dmellado |
| IRC channels: | #fedora[?]
#fedora-devel[?] #fedora-rust[?] #fedora-ansible[?] #openinfra[?] #opendev[?] #openstack-neutron[?] #openstack-dev[?] |
| Fedorapeople page: | https://dmellado.fedorapeople.org |
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About Me
I’m Daniel Mellado, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. My work spans cloud-native networking, Kubernetes, Edge, and OpenShift Observability, where I contribute to the Cloud Monitoring Operator (CMO), Prometheus, Perses, and the Cluster Observability Operator (COO).
In the OpenStack community, I’ve served as a Project Team Lead (PTL) and as a Cross-Project Liaison for Kuryr. I contributed extensively to Kuryr-Kubernetes and its integration with OpenStack Neutron, helping bridge the Kubernetes and OpenStack ecosystems. My work is referenced in the “Leveraging Containers and OpenStack” use-case whitepaper, and I’ve spoken at OpenStack Summits on Kuryr onboarding, hybrid workload networking, and Kubernetes interoperability. I’ve also contributed to upstream networking efforts such as MetalLB.
I’ve been involved with the Kubernetes–OpenStack Special Interest Group (SIG), participating in early efforts to improve interoperability and cross-project collaboration between both communities.
In Fedora, I founded the eBPF SIG, where I focus on packaging and maintaining eBPF tooling. I’m currently working on packaging AYA, improving Rust vendoring workflows, and collaborating on enhancements to rust2rpm to better support Rust-based projects in Fedora.
I’m also a frequent speaker at FOSDEM, DevConf, and ConfigMgmtCamp, sharing insights on cloud-native networking, observability, eBPF, and upstream collaboration. Currently trying to organize Fedora community and Distributions Devrrom for the upcoming FOSDEM XD
Outside of tech… I like to think I’m a pretty great bass player. 😄
Fedora Work
- Founder of the Fedora eBPF SIG
- Packaging and maintaining eBPF-related tools and libraries
- Active work on packaging AYA
- Improving Rust vendoring and cargo integration
- Collaborating on enhancements to rust2rpm
- Cloud-native, observability, and networking-related packaging work
Upstream + Community Contributions
- Project Team Lead (PTL) in the OpenStack community
- Cross-Project Liaison for Kuryr
- Major contributor to Kuryr-Kubernetes
- Contributions to MetalLB and cloud-native networking ecosystems
- Contributor to the “Leveraging Containers and OpenStack” use-case whitepaper
- Kubernetes–OpenStack SIG participant
- Speaker at OpenStack Summits (Kuryr onboarding, hybrid workloads, networking)
Interests
- eBPF & kernel-adjacent tooling
- Rust packaging & tooling ecosystems
- Observability: Prometheus, Perses, monitoring operators
- Kubernetes networking & OpenStack integration
- Distributed systems, Edge/Telco workloads
- Strengthening collaboration across upstream communities
