Dave Beckett
Senior Staff Production Engineer at Crusoe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDave Beckett is a Senior Staff Production Engineer with 26 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, high-stakes infrastructure across companies like Google Cloud, Twitter, and Crusoe. He led operational readiness for Google Cloud Dedicated—a sovereign cloud launched in France—building staffing models for an 80+ partner operations organization, closing tooling gaps across hundreds of services, and translating partnership obligations into contractual SLOs. At Twitter he managed some of the world’s largest Hadoop clusters and drove cloud migration and automation to reduce operational toil; at Crusoe he applies that SRE expertise to a rapidly scaling GPU cloud that his team is inventing as it grows. A long-time open source maintainer, he founded the Redland RDF Libraries Project, co-authored W3C work with Tim Berners-Lee, and contributes practical DevOps projects like containerized HBase and Sonos controller features. He combines hands-on on-call credibility with strategic technical leadership, making him effective for multi-year platform and operational excellence engagements.
25 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (30)
unit-testing10
hbase10
docker10
system-configuration10
python10
scripting10
bash10
containerization10
dockers10
refactor10
sonos-api10
script10
sh10
refactoring10
shell10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dajobe/hbase-docker
Aug 2013 - Sep 2020
HBase running in Docker
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:49 commits, 7 PRs, 28 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to setting up and improving the Docker environment for running HBase. They wrote scripts to start and manage the HBase container, update the `/etc/hosts` file for proper container communication, and implemented build and cleanup scripts for the Docker image. The user also updated the container configuration to use newer HBase versions and implemented changes to make the setup more portable. The contributions involved significant work related to Docker, shell scripting, and system configuration.
docker-containerhbasedocker
SoCo/SoCo
Aug 2014 - Feb 2015
SoCo (Sonos Controller) is a Python project that allows you to programmatically control Sonos speakers.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 8 comments, 1 issue in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dave contributed to the SoCo project by implementing and refactoring core functionalities. The user added the crossfade functionality, including the necessary code changes and tests within the soco/core.py and unittest/test_core.py files. The user also refactored the code, merging branches and resolving conflicts. Additional contributions included adding and fixing documentation and related unit tests.
control-sonossonos-controllerpythoncontrollersonos-speakers
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