David Echo
Solutions Engineer at Railway
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Echo is a Solutions Engineer with 11 years of experience helping large enterprises adopt automation and cloud-native workflows, currently at Railway after technical customer-facing roles at GitHub and Chef. He blends hands-on DevOps engineering (notably contributions to Habitat, Chef, and Pachyderm) with post-sales technical strategy, having managed $10M+ ARR accounts and authored guidance on monorepos for GitHub’s largest customers. David’s background includes building CI/CD pipelines, Chef automation at global scale, and recovery work for major production outages, demonstrating both systems-level depth and crisis engineering chops. An active open-source contributor, he improved usability and automation in widely used projects like habitat-sh and mintapi, and has a knack for making complex build and deployment workflows repeatable and testable. Fluent in cross-cultural collaboration (studied Japanese language/literature at Kobe University), he pairs technical rigor with a customer-first approach to drive adoption and measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of GeorgiaJapanese Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature at Kobe University
Github Skills (44)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
selenium10
python10
apidoc10
package-management10
scripting10
command-line-interface10
selenium-ide10
webscraping10
dockers10
cicd10
package-manager-tool10
chef-client10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
habitat-sh/core-plans
Oct 2017 - Jul 2020
Core Habitat Plan definitions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:155 commits, 162 PRs, 93 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:David's primary contributions focused on automating and improving the build process for Habitat packages. They made changes to exclude directories from code copying, updated node versions, and added a Concourse-fly plan. Further, they improved chef scaffolding by adding configuration options and modifying the run hook. They also contributed to adding tests and bumping versions for various packages.
planhabitatpackage-managerdefinitionspackages
pachyderm/pachyderm
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Data-Centric Pipelines and Data Versioning
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 28 commits, 23 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:David's commits primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration changes within the Pachyderm repository. They addressed issues related to minikube setup, documentation updates, and helm chart modifications. These changes reflect efforts to improve the deployment process, update documentation, and ensure the correct versioning of different components.
containersanalyticsdata-analysispachydermpipeline
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