David Dooling
Engineering Manager at Docker, Inc
Greater St. Louis United States
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Top SchoolDavid Dooling is an engineering manager and hands-on technical leader with decades of experience building cloud-first, high-throughput systems across biotech, fintech, and satellite data domains. He has repeatedly scaled platforms and teams—driving migrations to multi-tenant architectures, shepherding systems through SOC 2/ISO/PCI compliance, and scaling platforms by 1000×—while remaining deeply involved in architecture, code reviews, and automation. At Docker he leads the team behind Docker Official Images and has improved software supply chain security with SBOMs, attestations, and signatures. Comfortable from deep infrastructure to product strategy, he combines applied science rigor with pragmatic DevOps and Kubernetes/IaC expertise across AWS and on-prem environments. Known as a servant leader, he grows global remote teams and builds outcome-driven processes that align engineering work to revenue and customer value. His background in chemical engineering and genomics gives him a rare data-driven perspective on observability, testing, and cost-aware system design.
2 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering at Northwestern UniversityB.Ch.E., Chemical Engineering, B.Ch.E., Chemical Engineering at University of DaytonOlin Partners Program at Olin Business School, Business, Olin Partners Program at Olin Business School, Business at Washington University in St. Louis
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Github Skills (69)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
whalelines/docs
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Documentation for Docker Official Images in docker-library
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
whalelines/official-images
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
Primary source of truth for the Docker "Official Images" program
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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