David Chung
Engineering at Defakto Security
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Chung is a seasoned engineering leader with 10+ years building and scaling large distributed systems across cloud, AI, and container platforms. He has led mission-critical identity and infrastructure teams at Google Cloud and Facebook AI, managing globally distributed engineers to deliver high-reliability services at massive scale. A founder and early Docker-era contributor, he brings hands-on product and open-source experience—having launched and grown infrastructure projects and steered startup-to-acquisition transitions. David combines deep systems and performance expertise with a focus on data-centric ML tooling, feature engineering frameworks, and secure non-human identity solutions. He is comfortable moving between 0→1 product creation and operating five-nines production services, with a pragmatic emphasis on customer empathy and engineering culture. Based in the U.S. with an MS in ECE from Rice, he blends research-grade technical depth with proven organizational leadership.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University
Github Skills (29)
container10
docker10
ecosystem10
moby10
self-healing10
discovery10
go10
assemble10
golang10
fault-tolerance10
declarative9
scale9
infrastructure9
microservices8
orchestration8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chungers/infrakit
Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
A toolkit for creating and managing declarative, self-healing infrastructure.
Contributions:881 pushes, 304 branches in 2 years 1 month
declarativeinfrastructurehealingself-healing
infrakit/examples
Feb 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 22 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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