David Christensen
Director Of Technology at The DExT
Arizona, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Christensen is a veteran Linux systems engineer and technology leader with over 20 years of cross-industry experience spanning government, Fortune 1000, and startups across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Currently Director of Technology, he blends deep hands-on expertise—from early Linux kernel work through Salt, Git, AWS, IPAM, and Signiant workflow engines—to design scalable, operationally sound infrastructures. His background includes customer-facing solutions architecture and post-sales engineering roles at SaltStack, BlueCat, and Coralogix, where he paired technical advocacy with training and documentation to drive adoption. Comfortable writing Perl and PHP for automation and integration, he’s equally at home troubleshooting low-level systems as he is shaping product-enabled services. Known for learning new technologies quickly, he often surfaces practical operational insights that bridge engineering and customer success.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS, B.S. COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS at STAFFORD UNIVERSITYComputer Science, Computer Science at San Bernardino Valley CollegeCal Poly Pomona
English
Github Skills (49)
docker10
zeromq10
python10
configuration-management10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
iot10
automation10
infrastructure10
scale10
saltstack10
infrastructure-as-code10
salt10
remote-execution10
event-stream10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shorawitz/salt
Sep 2016 - Oct 2020
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt Open software package repository here:
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
provisioningpythonsaltdevopsitil
shorawitz/conext-api
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 release, 37 commits, 29 pushes in 4 months
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