Dave Parfitt
Principal Lead Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Buffalo, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Parfitt is a Principal Lead Software Engineer with 17 years building distributed systems, cloud orchestration, and developer tooling, currently shaping orchestration for Akamai Connected Cloud. He blends hands-on systems programming (Rust, Go, Erlang, C++) with leadership experience mentoring engineers and managers at HashiCorp, Fastly, and Mozilla. His work spans high-impact open-source projects—Firefox, Habitat, Terraform Plugin Framework, and MDN—plus contributions to MDN and Mozilla infra deployments using Kubernetes and Terraform. He holds a patent for choreographed distributed execution from his Habitat work and has reviewed several influential systems and language books. A remote worker since 2012 based in Buffalo, NY, he maintains a public portfolio of diverse language experiments and ops tooling on GitHub. Quietly opinionated about languages and allyship, he prefers remote-only roles and avoids crypto or relocation requests.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University at Buffalo
English
Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
docker10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
jenkins10
automations10
jenkins-ci10
sre10
gunicorn8
nodejs8
python7
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/kitsune
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
Platform for Mozilla Support
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 45 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Dave's contributions primarily center around the deployment and configuration of the Kitsune platform, leveraging Kubernetes for container orchestration. They implemented initial Kubernetes configurations, specifically for web services, by creating deployment manifests and service definitions. Further efforts include building automation scripts and customizing Gunicorn's logging format to integrate with infrastructure monitoring. They have also made the application of secrets deployment optional, and have updated Jenkins linking.
mozilla
mdn/kuma
Feb 2017 - Nov 2017
The project that powers MDN.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
DevOps Engineer & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)Contributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 27 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dave's primary contributions revolved around the creation and management of demo instances for the MDN project. They implemented scripts and configurations to automate the deployment and cleanup of these demo environments using tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Deis. The user also developed features for connecting to demo database instances and implemented SCL3 httpd redirects. This work directly impacted the project's development workflow by improving the ability to test and showcase the MDN platform.
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