Dave Vigil
Founder Platform Engineer
Cypress, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDave Vigil is a founder and platform engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building automation-first infrastructure and secure, scalable Kubernetes platforms for commercial and government environments. He specializes in Terraform/OpenTofu, Kubernetes (RKE2/RKE), CI/CD automation, and DevSecOps practices, and has repeatedly delivered infrastructure-as-code solutions used in sensitive federal contexts. Dave combines system-level engineering (Ansible, Puppet, GitLab CI) with applied AI tooling to accelerate development and ops workflows, and contributed testing and idempotency automation to the widely used rancherfederal/rke2-ansible project. Known for pragmatic, reproducible pipelines and observability integrations, he also brings a background in large-scale migrations and platform operations across cloud and on-prem stacks. Based in Cypress, Texas, he blends consulting experience with product-minded platform building, often surfacing small but impactful automation improvements that reduce operational toil.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Information Technology, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Information Technology at University of New Mexico-Valencia County Campus
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Github Skills (18)
rke10
python10
testinfra10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
kubernetes9
cicd9
kubernetes-pods9
yaml9
githubaction-workflow8
github-ci8
testing8
infrastructure-as-code6
aac6
configuration-management6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ranchergovernment/rke2-ansible
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
RKE2 cluster provisioning via Ansible.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 150 commits, 62 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure and automation aspects of the project. Their work included adding initial python-based tests using the `testinfra` library, focused on verifying the configuration of RKE2 clusters. They also worked on integrating and testing the idempotency of the Ansible playbook, including setting up a new testing environment and workflow integration. Furthermore, the user performed some documentation updates by adding information about contribution guidelines.
ansibleprovisioningrke
dgvigil/dotfiles
May 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:38 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
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