Dave Finlay
Cloud Architect at CodeDrifters
California, United States
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Top SchoolDave Finlay is a Cloud Architect and seasoned software engineer with 12 years building resilient, data-driven systems across startups and regulated industries from California. He blends hands-on engineering—ETL, data modeling, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and serverless architectures—with product-minded architecture work, having led migrations from MongoDB to Postgres/Redshift and deployed kops clusters in GovCloud. Dave has driven platform and release tooling, canary testing, and resource-tagging in CI, and previously co-founded a geospatial startup where he architected location and power-measurement systems that secured early funding and a DEMO award. Known for a pragmatic, facilitator style, he champions cross-team standards and application security while enjoying tinkering with maps, CLIs, and elegant tooling; he also self-deprecatingly points out his own shortcomings, which keeps him humble and approachable.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
General Education and Computer Science,, General Education and Computer Science, at Palomar CollegePolitical Science and Government, Political Science and Government at California State University, Chico
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
json10
python10
json-schema10
validation10
weather10
specification10
unicode10
schema10
ansi10
mqtt9
automation9
privacy9
home-assistant9
ajv9
data-sync9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dfinlay/home-assistant
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
raspberry-pipythonhousegardenmqtt
dfinlay/devops-helpers
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Devops helper scripts
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
helper-scriptssaltdevops
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