Dave Riddle is a software engineer with 13 years' experience who builds performant, maintainable web applications and currently works at Pivotal Software. He brings strong Ruby on Rails expertise from leading engineering at myWebRoom—creating a custom CMS, adding Solr-backed infinite scroll, and introducing componentized front-end and feature tests to speed delivery. Beyond Rails he contributes to cloud-native tooling: as a DevOps/backend contributor to VMware Tanzu's Sonobuoy he modernized build and test pipelines, upgraded Go and linters, and added e2e tests and documentation for Kubernetes conformance workflows. Dave is focused on quality, automation, and efficient collaboration, preferring solutions that reduce technical debt and accelerate teams. Based in Lake Bluff, Illinois, he holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Drake University and pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for cross-stack problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science / Mathematics, Physics Minor, B.S., Computer Science / Mathematics, Physics Minor at Drake University
Sonobuoy is a diagnostic tool that makes it easier to understand the state of a Kubernetes cluster by running a set of Kubernetes conformance tests and other plugins in an accessible and non-destructive manner.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 15 commits, 16 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on maintaining and updating the project's build and testing infrastructure. Their contributions included updating Go versions, upgrading linter versions, and configuring build scripts to use the latest kubectl. The user also added documentation and e2e tests, ensuring the project's versioning and testing frameworks were up-to-date. The code changes reveal a focus on keeping dependencies current and improving the testing procedures.
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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Dave Riddle - Software Engineer at Pivotal Software, Inc.