David Boucha
Staff 2 Engineer at ContextOS
Lehi, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Boucha is a Staff 2 Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in infrastructure automation and custom telephony (Asterisk) solutions, now based in Lehi, Utah. He has deep hands-on expertise with Salt, contributing code, SMB file functionality, and documentation to the widely used saltstack/salt project—demonstrating both developer and DevOps fluency. His career spans senior engineering and solution roles at SaltStack and VMware, where he bridged product engineering with customer-facing cloud solutions. Currently at an early-stage stealth startup, he pairs systems-level implementation skills with practical operations know-how from long-term public-sector IT work. Notably, his contributions show attention to both low-level system behavior (startup events, config) and developer experience (docs and API fixes), reflecting a pragmatic engineer who improves reliability and usability.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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148answers
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Github Skills (16)
infrastructure-as-code10
configuration-management10
saltstack10
python10
smb9
ubuntu9
remote-execution8
documentation8
cloud-computing7
firewall6
docker6
zeromq6
linux6
network-protocol6
deb6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Dec 2011 - Mar 2020
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 1738 commits, 125 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the SaltStack project by addressing code-related issues, including argument corrections and missing function arguments. They added functionality, like the `put_file` method for SMB. Furthermore, the user worked on documentation, addressing grammar and spelling errors, and updating links. They also implemented changes related to system configuration and startup events, demonstrating an understanding of infrastructure and system management.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
UtahDave/salt
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:81 pushes, 44 branches in 11 months
pythonsaltdevopsinfrastructurescale
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