David Childs
Team Lead, Cloud Engineering at Lightspeed DMS
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Childs is a seasoned cloud engineering leader with 12 years of experience building reliable, scalable platforms and currently leads cloud engineering for a SaaS dealer management platform serving 4,000+ dealerships. He architects EKS, GitOps, and IaC-driven self-service platforms while steering standards, security controls, and cross-team collaboration for 10+ squads. A former primary IaC contributor turned architect, he codified upgrade and Terraform practices that reduced risk and enabled engineers to operate independently. He brings a pragmatic, culture-first approach to change management—translating complex technical concepts to stakeholders from students to executives—and has a track record of shrinking lead times and automating provisioning and testing pipelines. His background includes large on-prem to cloud migrations, production incident leadership, and even military logistics experience that informs his operational discipline.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information Technology, Master of Science - MS, Information Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (90)
pci10
gdpr10
saas10
hardening10
webdriver9
dotnet9
azure9
devsecops9
security-hardening9
python9
security9
gcp9
nist9
selenium9
aws9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thetemplateblog/JoomberUI
Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:82 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 9 months
phpjoomlafoundation
thetemplateblog/Flat-Statamic
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 1 month
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