Dave Konopka
Senior Platform Engineer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDave Konopka is a Senior Platform Engineer with 15 years building reliable, cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms, currently shaping platform reliability at Gametime from Philadelphia. He blends a software development background with SRE and platform leadership—designing CI/CD, Terraform-driven self-service, and observability migrations at organizations like DigitalOcean and Stellar Health. A hands-on engineer, he’s developed Go tooling for reliability pipelines and contributed to open-source projects such as Goldilocks (resource tuning) and the devopsdays site, showing proficiency across dashboards, CLIs, and front-end content updates. He’s led small technical teams and customer-facing SRE work, pairing people-first coaching with practical automation. Known for pragmatism and a positive outlook, he often surfaces measurable reliability improvements while keeping developer experience front and center.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Graphic Design, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Graphic Design at Syracuse University
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
content-management-system10
dashboard10
command-line-interface10
go10
content-management10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
html10
website-development9
wordpress9
reporting-services8
front-end-development8
jekyll7
dockers7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
FairwindsOps/goldilocks
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Get your resource requests "Just Right"
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to enhancing the Goldilocks dashboard and command-line interface. They added the ability to exclude containers from recommendations, both globally and on a per-deployment basis. Furthermore, the user integrated a favicon, enhanced the dashboard's functionality, and ensured consistency throughout the project by utilizing existing VPA label definitions.
verticalpodautoscalerkubernetesfairwinds-officialreporting
jedi4ever/devopsdays-webby
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Website code for the devopsdays website
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dave contributed to the website code for devopsdays, specifically focusing on content updates and feature additions related to the Philadelphia 2016 event. Their work included modifying HTML files to update event details, add sponsor information, implement a call for proposals page, and fix typos. The user demonstrated familiarity with front-end website structure and content management.
devopsdays
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