David Ashford
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Distilled
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolDavid Ashford is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in Dublin with 11 years of experience operating cloud-native platforms and a deep expertise in Kubernetes and GitOps to improve developer and user experience. He has progressed through roles from web and data engineering into senior SRE leadership at Distilled, helping run some of Ireland’s busiest marketplaces. Technically hands-on, he has contributed to Jenkins X CI/CD pipelines—improving Docker registry workflows and automation for preview environments—which complements his focus on reliable build and deployment automation. David pairs a formal MSc conversion in Computer Science with an earlier environmental science degree, reflecting a practical, systems-oriented mindset and an ability to bridge diverse problem domains.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (Conversion) Computer Science, MSc (Conversion) Computer Science at University College DublinBSc (International) Environmental Science & Health, BSc (International) Environmental Science & Health at Dublin City University
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Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
docker10
continuous-integration10
tekton10
continuous-delivery10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
devops10
golang9
gitops9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jenkins-x/jx
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Jenkins X provides automated CI+CD for Kubernetes with Preview Environments on Pull Requests using Cloud Native pipelines from Tekton
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 days
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the Jenkins X CI/CD pipeline within the `jx` repository. Their contributions include incorporating a Docker registry organization parameter for importing and previewing applications, updating test configurations to align with new Docker registry structures. They also addressed placeholder replacements in the code to improve the automation of the CI/CD processes. The user's work primarily involved modifying build and deployment scripts, and adjusting configurations related to Docker and other related tools.
tektonopenshiftrolloutcontinuous-integrationjenkins
dashford/brompton
Dec 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 869 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 3 months
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