David Childers
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Childers is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure and backend services. He specializes in Java, Ruby, and Go, with deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), Envoy/HAProxy, and observability stacks like Prometheus and Grafana. David has driven measurable impact as an infrastructure lead—most notably cutting cloud costs dramatically through committed discounts, spot instances, autoscaling, and workload optimizations—and has a track record of enabling zero-downtime product launches with robust CI/CD and monitoring. He blends low-level systems understanding from early work on x86 validation and hardware load balancers with modern reliability engineering practices, frequently embedding with product teams to improve availability and perform chaos engineering. Based in Seattle, he currently focuses on reliability engineering at Airbnb, bringing both operational rigor and developer-facing tooling improvements to complex, multi-tenant environments.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng Computer Engineering and Computer Science, M.Eng Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of Louisville
Github Skills (8)
prometheus10
helm10
charts10
kubernetes9
discovery8
soa8
service-discovery4
kiali3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chase-childers/rails-resume
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Rails Version of my Resume Website
Contributions:28 PRs, 57 pushes, 25 branches in 8 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby
chase-childers/resume
Jun 2019 - Aug 2020
Resume Data as a Raw YAML
Contributions:24 PRs, 26 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 2 months
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