David Ellis
VP Marketing at GAF
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ellis is a VP of Marketing based in Boulder with a decade of leadership at the intersection of product, P&L management, and go-to-market strategy for B2B and B2B2C businesses. He has repeatedly turned engineering-led product insights into recurring revenue models—from launching a fast-scaling fire protection services startup to directing global product lines for fire safety at Tyco. His background as a submarine warfare officer and mechanical engineer informs a disciplined, systems-oriented approach to innovation, exemplified by seeding Tyco’s rapid Innovation Workshop program. Unusually for a senior marketer, he’s also a hands-on data visualization enthusiast and senior software engineer contributor to Grafana-related Kubernetes monitoring dashboards, improving multi-cluster observability and dashboard usability. This blend of technical contribution and commercial leadership enables him to bridge developer-centric products with scalable market strategies.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Univeristy of RochesterMBA, General Management, MBA, General Management at University of Virginia - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
prometheus10
grafana10
jsonnet10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-purgatory/kubernetes-mixin
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
A set of Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 12 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the Kubernetes monitoring setup within the repository. Their contributions include adding support for multi-cluster dashboards, integrating dashboard tags, and modifying the default dashboard name prefix. They also made changes related to the display of resources and USE method metrics, indicating a focus on improving the visualization and usability of the monitoring dashboards. Moreover, they added specific metrics to improve Kubernetes monitoring dashboards.
grafana-dashboardkubernetesprometheus
splunk/kubernetes-mixin
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
A set of Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts for Kubernetes.
Contributions:8 commits, 15 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 month
grafana-dashboardkubernetesprometheus
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