Commits are checked for names and credentials before they land
- Built by
- Codex, in a sealed container
- Size
- large
- Attempts
- 1
- Review
- Claude sent it back for a fix
- Merged
- 57b2ff05 to 0df0ab38
Daniel P. White
Platform and compliance automation engineer. Five years automating builds and security controls in regulated, classified environments; six before that on the Air Force flight line.
Who I am
I take systems I didn’t build and make them work together: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and the controls regulated environments require, so every change leaves its own audit trail.
I’m looking for remote work where automation is the product: compliance and security controls written as code, evidence that collects itself, and pipelines that make the audit the easy part.
I’m a generalist by choice. I use AI tools openly, and I run my own behind the same review gates I’d want on anyone’s code.
Outside work I’ve been an active crypto market participant since 2017: DeFi, perpetual futures, exchange mechanics, custody and self-custody, on-chain analysis, and regulated prediction markets.
Where I’ve worked
2009–2015
Aircraft Engine Specialist
U.S. Air Force
Six years on the flight line, the later ones as front-line supervisor of an engine team.
Every job followed a technical order and went into the aircraft’s records.
2021
B.S. Computer Science
Florida State University
Minor in mathematics.
2021–2023
Software Developer
Anyar, Inc.
Made Checkmarx static analysis a CI gate on a classified network, replacing a periodic manual review.
Built a production CI/CD pipeline in Python and TeamCity for C/C++ simulation software, with containerized Windows and RHEL build agents.
2023–now
Platform / DevSecOps Engineer
Large defense contractor, remote
Maintain a shared Ansible playbook project used by several teams; modular roles and Git submodules let teams pull updates instead of keeping their own copies.
Containerized a controlled (CUI) Linux development environment and moved legacy build and test workflows into GitLab CI/CD.
Built a web app over the Buildroot package system, so OS certification review queries dependencies and status instead of checking packages one at a time.
An AI build loop I run after hours on one Fedora VM. Each ticket I approve goes to Codex, Claude or a cheaper model and builds in a rootless Podman container: read-only root, no capabilities, one scoped credential. A second model family reviews the exact diff, the tests run again offline, and only then does it merge.
83 of 93 tickets merged between 8 October and 22 October 2026, 87% on the first try. Pick a receipt to read it.
What I run
Night Shift kit
The build loop in the combustor, packaged for developers who run coding agents.
Agent platform
Self-hosted Hermes Agent on Fedora: agents work from Kanban boards, a planner takes goals over Telegram, and a spend governor caps daily runs and model choice.
Job-screening pipeline
Polls employers’ job boards directly, has an LLM score each posting against a written rubric, and sends a daily digest. It never applies on its own.
Market-intelligence pipeline
Two-stage LLM extraction from Reddit, RSS and X with claim-level deduplication; scores its own predictions nightly against realized prices.
Backups and rebuilds
Append-only Restic backups with weekly checks and monthly restore drills, an Ansible rebuild from Git, and dead-man alerting.
Tools I’ve worked with
- Ansible
- GitLab CI/CD
- TeamCity
- Docker
- Podman
- Buildroot
- RHEL
- Fedora
- Python
- Bash
- SQL
- TypeScript
- SvelteKit
- Claude
- Codex
Contact
Hiring for compliance automation, platform or security engineering? I’d like to hear about it.
Richland County, Ohio. Eastern time, remote.
Photographs: propulsion flight by A1C Patrick Boyle, U.S. Air Force; F101 test cell film by Timothy Kirchner; Clear Fork Gorge by Drrosenrosen. All public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. None of the people pictured is me.
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