Dave Rawks
System Administrator
California, United States
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Top SchoolDave Rawks is a seasoned Unix/Linux system administrator with 11+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale production infrastructure across media and hosting companies. He has progressed from datacenter system administrator roles to leadership positions at Pandora and currently manages operations at Craigslist.org, demonstrating a steady track record of operational ownership and team leadership. Comfortable across classic and modern infrastructure stacks, he brings deep hands-on expertise in Unix systems, hosting operations, and incident-driven problem solving. Based in California, he pairs pragmatic engineering with process improvements that keep high-traffic services reliable, and his long tenure in music and classifieds tech spaces reflects a knack for scaling systems under real-world load.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, General Education at Acalanes High School
Stackoverflow
470reputation
23kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (200)
timeseries-database10
opensearch10
statsd10
ubuntu10
automation10
search-api10
api10
service-discovery10
vault10
dkim10
vagrant10
prometheus10
mongodb10
amazon10
time-series10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
drawks/consul
Jul 2015 - Jul 2026
Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration.
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 11 years 1 month
golangdiscoveryservice-discoveryconsulmonitoring
drawks/gearhulk
Nov 2024 - Jul 2025
A suite ofgolang gearman server, client and worker modules and command line utilities
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 months
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