David K.

DevOps & Platform Engineer | Kubernetes | CI/CD Automation

  • DevOps & Platform Engineer
  • Remote (US)
  • Decade of experience automating infrastructure and building developer platforms that ship faster and safer.

Expertise

David builds internal developer platforms, automates infrastructure with Terraform, and operates production Kubernetes at scale. He focuses on observability, cost optimization, and reducing deployment friction for engineering teams.

Bio

Having run platform teams across fintech and healthcare, David brings a reliability-first mindset to every system he touches. He thrives on turning brittle manual processes into self-service, well-monitored automation.

Work Experience

  1. Staff Platform Engineer, Vantage Health

    Built a self-service platform that cut deploy times from hours to minutes.

  2. Senior DevOps Engineer, PayGrid

    Operated multi-region Kubernetes and reduced infra spend by 30%.

  3. Site Reliability Engineer, Streamline

    Established SLOs, on-call runbooks, and full-stack observability.

Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Skills

KubernetesTerraformAWSGCPDockerGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaGoObservability