David Crawford
Senior Customer Success Architect at GitHub
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Crawford is a Senior Customer Success Architect with two decades of hands-on experience designing and operating Linux/UNIX hosting, cloud-native platforms, and distributed systems. He blends Linux platform architecture and software engineering expertise to help organizations modernize deployments, optimize performance, and tame database and caching complexity. His background spans startups to enterprise—roles at Pivotal/VMware, Proofpoint, Sysomos and now GitHub—where he’s guided cloud-native transformation and SRE practices for production-critical services. Known for clear, pragmatic communication to technical teams and executives, he pairs UML-driven design and process modeling with pragmatic automation and deployment tooling. David’s career also reveals a practical hacker streak: early freelance web development and low-level provisioning work gave him deep operational intuition that still informs his architectural choices. Based in Toronto, he balances platform-level strategy with an engineer’s obsession for performance and reliability.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at Brock University
English
Github Skills (60)
dotnet10
drawing10
plugin10
dedicated-server10
sensitivity9
cursor9
nvim-cmp9
utility9
syntax-highlighting9
canvas8
collaboration8
mouse8
scrolling8
visualization8
summarize8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
neeerp/RustMS
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
An attempt at implementing the Maplestory Server End from scratch with Rust
Contributions:86 commits, 46 PRs, 55 pushes in 3 months
rustscratchmaplestory
neeerp/runelite
Nov 2019 - Jun 2023
Open source Old School RuneScape client
Contributions:18 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
old-schoolrunescape-clientold-school-runescaperunescape
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