David Birdsong
Infrastructure Edge Engineer at Supabase
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Birdsong is a seasoned Infrastructure Edge Engineer with 12+ years designing and operating high-throughput, production-grade systems across startups and late-stage companies. He’s built and migrated complex build and runtime stacks (Makefile→Bazel, ECS→Kubernetes), authored custom proxies and traffic-shaping layers using scripted Nginx/Lua, HAProxy, and Go, and scaled Kafka-backed platforms and regional Kubernetes clusters. Deep protocol-level debugging—HTTP/2, QUIC, TLS connection pooling—and pragmatic service discovery (Consul) are core strengths, often implemented via bespoke tooling rather than off-the-shelf solutions. At imgix and Segment he shipped low-latency caching and forward-proxy systems that materially reduced bandwidth and improved scaling, and at Observe led a cross-language monorepo build migration that improved developer velocity. Based in San Francisco, he seeks roles that let him dive into protocol internals and edge infrastructure while still being hands-on in the code and ops. Outside work he’s a budding freerider teaching his child to love riding woods trails, reflecting a taste for controlled risk and iterative learning.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
python10
process-control10
exporter10
prometheus-exporter10
automation10
operating-system10
ssh10
monitoring10
unix10
leveldb10
ansible10
golang10
system-information10
database10
json10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
davidbirdsong/heka-prometheus
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
davidbirdsong/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 3 months
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