David Edler
Engineering Manager at Canonical
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Edler is an engineering manager based in Berlin with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating backend systems in research and cloud-native environments. He progressed from web and DevOps roles into leadership at Canonical, where he contributes to the LXD container/VM manager’s API and security features, reflecting deep practical knowledge of networking, client-certificate handling, and system defaults. Prior roles at ResearchGate and plista show a track record of shipping reliable infrastructure and tooling, leveraging expertise in iptables, PHP, databases, Jenkins and Nagios. He pairs a formal mathematics background with recent BSc and MSc studies in computer science, blending analytical rigor with modern software engineering. Known for quietly improving interoperability and documentation on open-source projects, he brings both manager-level coordination and frequent hands-on fixes to complex distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 1,6, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 1,6 at FernUniversität in HagenScheffold Gymnasium Schwäbisch GmündMathematics, Mathematics at Universität Rostock
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (8)
lxd10
go10
api10
apidoc10
networking9
dockers7
docker7
container7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/lxd
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:140 reviews, 4 commits, 21 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:David primarily contributes to the back-end functionality of the LXD project. Their work focuses on enhancing the API, including adding parameters for network listing and client certificate handling. They also address documentation inconsistencies and fix default configurations related to instance management. In addition, the user implemented the `client_cert_presence` extension and updated the server's API to reflect the presence of client certificates.
virtual-machinegocontainerslxclxd
canonical/microcloud.is
Feb 2023 - Oct 2023
The website for Micro cloud
Contributions:18 reviews, 39 PRs, 90 pushes in 7 months
web-and-design
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