David Cully
SRE Tech Lead at Cisco Meraki
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Cully is an SRE tech lead based in San Francisco with 10 years of hands-on experience building automation, tooling, and cloud infrastructure for robotics and ambitious startups. He has driven platform reliability and CI/CD at scale—migrating clouds, architecting distributed deployment systems, and creating self-service monitoring and alerting that empower product teams to operate independently. His background spans hardware-integrated work (over-the-air updates, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and manufacturing automation) to large-scale real-time services, reflecting a rare blend of systems, DevOps, and embedded experience. Known for turning complex operational pain points into developer-friendly self-service platforms, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a mathematician’s attention to detail from his BA in Mathematics and History.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics History at Colorado College
Github Skills (26)
robot8
sensor7
home-assistant5
configurations5
simultaneous5
apriltags4
testing4
localization4
ros4
python3
testng3
detector3
simulator2
robotics2
simulation2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iron-ox/cartographer
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Cartographer is a system that provides real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in 2D and 3D across multiple platforms and sensor configurations.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 10 months
platformscartographermappingsensorsimultaneous
rackerlabs/python-proboscis
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 PRs in 1 year 7 months
testingpythontestng
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