David Corbo is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building and optimizing data processing and infrastructure systems, currently working as a Member of Technical Staff on online storage at OpenAI. He has driven efficiency and cost management at Stripe focused on Hadoop/Spark ecosystems and disaggregated shuffle (Celeborn), and has a history of internships across AWS, Uber, and Stripe contributing to security, mitigation, and payments. Comfortable in both DevOps and backend engineering, he has improved reliability and maintainability in open-source projects like the popular PiVPN installer by hardening install/update scripts and networking configurations. Based in Seattle and trained at the University of Washington, he combines production-scale thinking with practical scripting and automation skills. Colleagues would describe him as quietly pragmatic—favoring robust, incremental improvements that reduce operational toil.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Washington
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Clayton High School
The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:15 commits, 10 PRs, 29 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the installation script for PiVPN, a VPN installer designed for Raspberry Pi. Their contributions include adding features like a local DNS resolver option, ensuring proper user/group ownership for OpenVPN, and safeguarding against potential issues in the UFW configuration. They also made improvements to the update script and implemented code cleanup, which suggests a focus on stability and maintainability.
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