Summary
Dave Koopman is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with 13+ years at GoDaddy, combining executive experience as a former CTO with deep hands-on expertise building massively scalable, highly available web and database platforms. He designs and automates global provisioning, monitoring, and remediation workflows—applying CI/CD, API-first and TDD practices—to pursue five-nines availability across hybrid cloud and data center footprints. His background spans leading cloud and hosting transformations, MySQL fleet automation for millions of databases, and integrating CMDB and discovery pipelines to achieve near-complete asset accuracy. A pragmatic technical leader, he pairs strategic product-level architecture work with day-to-day coding in Python and automation tooling (Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, OpenStack) to remove operational toil. Based in Scottsdale, he channels a long-standing passion for empowering small businesses into resilient platforms that let customers start, grow, and run ventures with confidence.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Missouri State University