David Albertson
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Albertson is a Member of Technical Staff with 13 years building large-scale cloud and networking infrastructure, currently working at Anthropic after leadership roles on Stripe’s core infrastructure (ingress, CDN, DDoS and distributed caching) and a long tenure on Azure compute and dedicated fabric at Microsoft. He focuses on backend systems and distributed caching, with hands-on experience making cloud extensions robust across diverse Linux environments (notably contributions to Azure's azure-linux-extensions repo to ensure Python 2/3 compatibility and encoding fixes). Based in Bellevue, Washington, he combines production-grade systems engineering with pragmatic open-source contributions that bridge platform and operational concerns. He holds a software engineering BEng from Polytechnique Montréal and an offbeat credential as a private pilot, signaling technical breadth and disciplined attention to complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of College Studies, Natural Sciences, Diploma of College Studies, Natural Sciences at Collège Jean-de-BrébeufBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software engineering at Polytechnique MontréalPrivate pilot license, Private pilot license at Collège Air RichelieuHigh school diploma, Natural Sciences, High school diploma, Natural Sciences at College Mont-Saint-Louis
English, French
Stackoverflow
2,176reputation
681kreached
57answers
12questions
command-line
top-5%
windows
top-5%
Github Skills (17)
python10
scripting10
linux10
batchfile9
bash9
windows9
command-line9
azure8
microsoft-azure8
devops7
tomcat6
favicon6
opengl6
io6
java6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-linux-extensions
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:3 releases, 20 commits, 10 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `azure-linux-extensions` repository by addressing encoding and interpreter compatibility issues within the extension's Python scripts. They added support for Python 2 and 3 side-by-side in the CustomScriptExtension and implemented fixes for encoding problems in multiple script files. Additionally, the user modified the shim script and core files to resolve issues and ensure correct execution of the extension across various Linux distributions.
hyper-vlinuxvirtual-machineextensionsazure
Azure/azure-automation-go-worker
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Go implementation of the Azure Automation hybrid worker
Contributions:33 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 month
golangworkerautomationhybridazure
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.