Dave Cuza
Site Reliability Engineer at Yelp
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDave Cuza is a Site Reliability Engineer at Yelp with a decade of hands-on experience spanning full-stack development, DevOps, and systems administration. He specializes in cloud-native deployments, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation and Linux infrastructure, having migrated on-prem tools to cloud-native architectures and managed HA Kubernetes clusters and VMware datacenters. At Yelp he contributes to the open PaaSTA platform, improving Kubernetes deployment reliability and operator tooling like paasta status and mark_for_deployment. Comfortable as a solo lead or as part of a small ops team, he’s delivered end-to-end systems from Django and Symfony backends to front-end UX and production pipelines. Cuban by birthright and based in Toronto, he balances a pragmatic engineering style with hobbies that keep him chasing new skills—bass playing, kitesurfing and snowboarding—which mirror his iterative, project-driven approach to tooling and reliability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering at Universidad de Matanzas Camilo Cienfuegos
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
docker10
paas10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
python9
cli-application8
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:95 reviews, 77 commits, 57 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Dave contributed to the PaaSTA platform by implementing and modifying deployment configurations, specifically focusing on Kubernetes. Their work included capturing and handling exceptions within the Kubernetes deployment process, and modifying the `paasta status` command, including introducing a new version of the status output. Additionally, the user made changes to the `mark_for_deployment` CLI tool, including updates to the Slack notification process. These commits demonstrate a focus on deployment, monitoring, and operational aspects of the PaaSTA platform.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
cuza/Digital_Clinic_Records
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:152 commits, 1 branch, 1 tag in 4 months
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