David Canas
Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Learning Equality
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Canas is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems and developer tooling at Learning Equality from front-end design to Kubernetes-based production deployments. He combines deep SRE chops—CI/CD, Terraform, GCP, Postgres—with a strong background in accessible, performant front-end development (Node, Vue, Webpack) and hands-on open-source contributions to education-focused projects like KA Lite and Kolibri. Known for improving developer experience and owning deployment pipelines, he also leads training and cross-project initiatives that evolve services at scale. Based in San Diego, he blends product-minded engineering with field research experience in Mexico, reflecting a rare pairing of user-centered design and ops rigor.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
html10
css10
javascript10
bootstra10
front-end-development10
bootstrap10
handlebars10
vue10
webpacker10
vue-jsx10
webpack10
responsive-design9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
learningequality/studio
Apr 2017 - Sep 2020
Content curation tools for Kolibri
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 80 commits, 25 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the frontend of the project, with a focus on the build process and UI components. They updated build files (build.js) to simplify the build process, clean up variable names, and address promise errors. Additionally, the user worked on integrating and modifying Vue components, adding CSS styling, and refactoring elements, reflecting their hands-on work in frontend development.
content-curationphpcurationkolibrisdg-4
learningequality/ka-lite
Apr 2015 - May 2015
KA Lite: lightweight web server for serving core Khan Academy content (videos and exercises) without needing internet connectivity
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on front-end development within the KA Lite project. Their contributions centered on building and styling UI components for content recommendation features. They implemented a responsive layout, bootstrap integration and modified handlebars templates for various cards. The user also updated and styled the resume, explore and next steps cards.
connectivityservinginternet-connectivityweb-servervideos
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