Daman Arora is a senior software engineer at ShapeBlue, where he develops Apache CloudStack and supports enterprise customers alongside the open-source community. Over the past decade he’s built front-end applications at Ciena, automated Kubernetes infrastructure at Nokia, and delivered custom cloud solutions at IBM. He’s contributed to open source through Google Summer of Code (a CloudStack Terraform provider in Go), an AWS Open Source Engineering Fellowship, and an RBC-sponsored fellowship. He holds a master’s in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University.