David Collom
Solutions Architect at Komodor
Newton Aycliffe, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Collom is a Solutions Architect with 13 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, production-grade systems across FinTech and high-scale consumer platforms. Currently at Komodor, he focuses on AI-driven SRE tooling and previously led platform and infrastructure initiatives at Jetstack, Credit Karma and Sky Betting & Gaming. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes operators and backend systems—evidenced by contributions to a golang redis-operator that improved cluster provisioning, TLS support and PodDisruptionBudget handling—with practical DevOps leadership as an event organizer for DevOpsDays London. Based in Newton Aycliffe, he’s known for stabilizing complex distributed systems and translating operational challenges into resilient, automatable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE, GCSE at Barnard Castle SchoolHNC Web Development, HNC Web Development at University of TeessideVarious Information Technology, Various Information Technology at Bishop Auckland College
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
redis10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
helm9
mtls8
yaml8
libtls8
tls138
tls128
restful-api7
api-design7
devops7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
OT-CONTAINER-KIT/redis-operator
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
A golang based redis operator that will make/oversee Redis standalone/cluster/replication/sentinel mode setup on top of the Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the backend logic of the redis-operator, improving cluster provisioning and addressing command execution issues. They enhanced the operator's ability to handle replica size overrides for master/slaves and added support for TLS secrets. Additionally, they integrated PodDisruptionBudget support and refined the code to efficiently handle state updates. These changes suggest a focus on improving the operator's stability, scalability, and security within the Kubernetes environment.
cluster-moderedis-sentinelopenshiftoperator-frameworkoperator
davidcollom/dotfiles
Oct 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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