Daniel Aberger

Building and operating reliable software, platforms, and infrastructure. Focused on practical engineering, automation, and maintainable systems.

Work

Open source & education

Runtime Class Manager

Automates the lifecycle of containerd shims in Kubernetes — installation, updates, removal, and configuration — to reduce manual errors and improve reliability for Wasm workloads.

LFS256: DevOps and Workflow Management with Argo

Co-author of the Linux Foundation's LFS256 course — an introduction to the Argo Suite and companion to the CAPA certification.

Gidbig

Extensible Discord bot written in Go. Core feature is a soundboard with channel commands and a web UI with OAuth2. Plugins add weather, quotes, and mini games with leaderboards.

Client work

GitHub Copilot Chat Extension

Custom Copilot Chat extension integrating a proprietary chatbot backend with awareness of internal docs, product info, and org-compliant Terraform modules. Built in Python, deployed on AWS ECS via Terraform.

GitHub Onboarding Service

Event-driven hexagonal architecture service using EntraID groups to auto-create GitHub teams and invite members, plus a cost allocation service. Python on AWS Lambda via Terraform.

Code Review Service

AI-powered code review service for GitLab merge requests using an LLM. Written in Python, runs on AWS ECS deployed via Terraform.

CLI Proxy

Extensible CLI tool enabling developers to use internal services behind SAML login (e.g. SonarQube with SonarLint). Uses Playwright for SAML auth and starts a local authenticated proxy. Written in Go.

RenovateBot / Renovate Runner

Extended Renovate Runner with custom Python logic, scheduled GitLab CI execution, and Confluence statistics pages for dependency update tracking.

Secret & Dependency Scanners

Two GitLab CI pipeline tools: a secret scanner to detect leaked credentials, and a dependency scanner to flag outdated packages. Both written in Python with pipeline artifact output.

Technologies

Languages: Go, Python, TypeScript, Bash
Cloud & containers: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
Delivery & infrastructure: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Terraform, GitOps, Argo Suite, SaltStack
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Zabbix
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis
AI tooling: OpenAI API, LangChain, RAG, MCP, GitHub Copilot Extensions