Dave Finster
Staff Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering At Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolDave Finster is a Staff Systems Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering at Google with 11+ years building resilient, performant infrastructure and full-stack applications. He combines deep hands-on expertise across networks, physical compute/storage, OS internals and application stacks—ranging from embedded C/C++ on microcontrollers to backend services in Go, Node.js and Java—to diagnose, instrument and automate complex systems. As a former CTO and founder, he designed fault-tolerant deployments, CI/CD pipelines and hybrid datacenter/cloud architectures while leading teams to ship API-driven products for construction and field services. Dave’s strengths lie in treating reliability as a product: he prioritizes observability, safety and repeatable operations to reduce outages and accelerate delivery. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings a practical generalist mindset that adapts to any layer of the stack and an uncommon track record of hands-on data-center deployment, BGP routing and embedded systems work alongside large-scale cloud SRE.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Software Engineering with Honours, BE, Software Engineering with Honours at The University of QueenslandBrisbane Boys' College
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Github Skills (125)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
davefinster/coder
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:72 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
davefinster/system-configs
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:49 pushes in 8 months
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