Hello! I am Daniel Helfand!

I am a Developer Advocate at GitLab. Prior to joining GitLab, I have worked in both engineering and developer relations roles. My main focus areas have been CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Golang. In addition to guiding ideas around platform engineering, continuous delivery, and Kubernetes at GitLab, a lot of my focus is on GitLab Duo, GitLab's AI developer productivity tooling.

Social Media

You can reach me on the following social media channels:

• Bluesky
• LinkedIn
• Twitter/X

Open Source Engineering Work

I worked on the following open source projects:

• Tekton - Maintainer of tkn (Tekton CLI)
• Carvel - Maintainer of kapp-controller project
• Argo - Contributed to Argo CD project

Content Creation

Check out some videos and blogs I have created showcasing cloud native technologies.

Videos

• Using a custom builder image on Red Hat OpenShift
• OpenShift Pipelines Tutorial using Tekton
• Using odo to deploy an application to OpenShift
• Carvel kapp-controller Demo - Kubernetes Package Management API
• Using Argo CD with vclusters
• Preventing Tag Mutation With kbld and Argo CD
• GitLab Operational Container Scanning Demo
• GitLab 17.8 - Protected Container Repositories
• GitLab Duo for Premium & Ultimate - Complete Setup Guide for VS Code
• GitLab Duo Agent Platform Public Beta: Next-gen AI orchestration and more
• GitLab 18.3: Expanding AI orchestration in software engineering
• GitLab 18.4: AI-native development with automation and insight

Blogs

• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: A Developer’s Guide to AI Reusability
• Variable and artifact sharing in GitLab parent-child pipelines
• Get started with GitLab Duo Agentic Chat in the web UI
• How to use OCI images as the source of truth for continuous delivery
• How to stream logs through the GitLab Dashboard for Kubernetes
• Improve security auditing with GitLab Operational Container Scanning
• Using a custom builder image on Red Hat OpenShift with OpenShift Do
• How to use odo the developer-centric CLI with OpenShift 4
• Provisioning and Using vclusters with Carvel
• Using Argo CD with vclusters
• Preventing Tag Mutation With kbld And Argo CD
• GitLab Showcases AI-Powered DevSecOps Platform: Key Insights for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024
• Unlocking the Full Potential of Container Vulnerability Scans