David Burton is a seasoned Data Center Architect and VCDX-certified leader with nine years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale VMware-based private clouds. He currently manages a private cloud team at Astreya, building a self-service platform that accelerates IT consumption and automates lifecycle operations across a 7,000+ VM estate and 2.8PB of storage. His expertise spans the VMware vCloud suite (vCAC, vSphere, VCOPS, vCO) and enterprise automation using PowerShell, with a background leading infrastructure at UPMC where he drove virtualization strategy, hardware platform design, and enterprise standardization. Known for blending deep technical mastery with pragmatic automation, he focuses on turning complex infrastructure into repeatable, auditable services. Based in the Greater Pittsburgh region, he pairs a BS in Computer Science with a knack for scaling operational processes that make large environments manageable.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics Teacher Education, Bachelor's degree Mathematics Teacher Education at Black Hills State University
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at South Dakota Mines
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