Damon Buckwalter
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamon Buckwalter is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a long career designing and operating resilient infrastructure, now at Microsoft after leading platform and cloud migrations at New Relic. He combines deep hands‑on skills across Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL and cloud automation with a systems mindset for parallel processing, fast data indexing, and cost-optimized database platform moves. Damon has repeatedly delivered large-scale migrations and lift‑shift‑optimize projects on schedule, reduced operational complexity, and led incident response for 24/7 services. He pairs technical execution with strong verbal and written communication, mentoring teams and translating business needs into scalable, automatable architectures. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he brings a rare mix of infrastructure longevity—from datacenters and F5/Big‑Iron stacks to modern cloud platforms—and a track record of surfacing pragmatic data-driven improvements.
3 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Science, Diploma Computer Science at Franklin High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Portland State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (33)
asciidoc10
newrelic10
backlog10
authentication9
documentation9
cli9
docker8
command-line-tool8
podman8
kubeadm8
golang8
testing7
kubernetes7
command-line7
api6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nr-dbuckwalter/docs-website
Jan 2023 - Oct 2023
Source code and public issue backlog for @newrelic docs. We welcome feedback on the docs in GitHub issues!
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
newrelicfeedbackbacklogwelcome
nr-dbuckwalter/infrastructure-agent-puppet
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Puppet module for installing New Relic Infrastructure agent
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
agentpuppetinstallingpuppet-moduleinfrastructure
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