David Altschuler
Associate Director
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Altschuler is an Associate Director and cloud/systems engineer with 8+ years of experience designing resilient, automated infrastructure for life sciences and research environments. He blends deep enterprise IT expertise—storage, networking, virtualization, Linux/Windows—with cloud-native tooling like AWS, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes/ECS to move large-scale workloads into cost-efficient, automated platforms. At organizations including the Broad Institute and Foundation Medicine he built chargeback and data-migration systems that handled petabytes of storage and millions in cost recovery, demonstrating both technical breadth and financial impact. Known for pragmatic automation, he bridges vendor ecosystems and modern devops practices to accelerate research and clinical workflows. Based in Medford, MA, he continuously refines infrastructure patterns to empower science, often focusing on reproducibility and operational cost controls that aren’t obvious from a typical cloud resume.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Networking, BS Computer Networking at Wentworth Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bedford High School
English
Github Skills (92)
pair-programming10
terraform10
sftp10
encryption10
podman10
linux10
ftp10
oci-container10
docker10
yandex10
terraform-provider10
aws10
webdav9
golang9
azure9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
daltschu22/crawlinator
Nov 2018 - Jul 2021
Crawl a filesystem path recursively and display relevant stats that you might find useful
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 69 pushes in 2 years 8 months
filesystem
broadinstitute/infra20
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:20 reviews, 58 PRs, 68 pushes in 29 days
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