Dave Ashby
Founding Partner at PotomacSI, Inc.
Fairfax Station, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Ashby is a founding partner and seasoned enterprise IT leader with 11+ years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale DevSecOps "software factory" platforms, particularly around Kubernetes (OpenShift), containerization, and GitLab CI. He combines deep technical fluency in Python, OIDC-based auth patterns (often with Keycloak), and CI/CD pipelines with a chief-architect perspective supporting 1,000+ developers and DevOps staff across multiple product lines. Dave excels at translating complex trade-offs for non-technical leaders and mitigating risk through pragmatic, outside-the-box engineering and cross-functional collaboration. His background spans government and defense missions—from nuclear submarine officer to senior roles at Lockheed Martin and IBM—giving him uncommon operational discipline and a strong security mindset. He mentors engineers at all levels and has driven platform components and pipelines adopted broadly across customer organizations.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Systems Engineering, BS, Systems Engineering at United States Naval AcademyMBA, International Business, MBA, International Business at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
Github Skills (40)
js-plugin10
javascript10
asdf10
htmx10
infrastructure10
rest10
html10
hyperscript10
microservices10
hateoas10
plugin9
user-guide9
dx9
versioning8
service-catalog8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vadave/cookiecutter-flask-skeleton
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Real Python Flask Starter Project
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 months
python-flaskflaskpythonpython3
vadave/htmx
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
</> htmx - high power tools for HTML
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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