David Evans
Principal Architect at Duquesne Light Company
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Evans is a Principal Architect with nine years focused on infrastructure and systems engineering, currently leading architecture at Duquesne Light Company. He combines deep Linux, SAN, Oracle, and configuration management expertise with hands-on automation—designing IaC pipelines (Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible), Kubernetes deployments, and a Python/Kafka messaging replacement that cut multi-day transfers to near real time. David has built and hardened large-scale fleets (600+ RHEL servers), centralized auth and logging platforms, and automated Oracle RAC and VM workflows using Puppet, OpenSCAP, and Elastic Stack. His background spans utilities, manufacturing, finance, and healthcare, giving him a pragmatic approach to reliability and compliance in regulated environments. Collected experience with Cisco UCS, Pure Storage NVMe, and Red Hat IDM shows he blends hardware-level design with platform automation to deliver measurable operational improvements.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's Degree Business Administration and Management General at Duquesne University
Github Skills (20)
confluent-cloud10
storage9
scanning8
rest8
terraform-provider8
terraform8
rest-client7
golang6
compliance5
openscap5
nist5
data-stream5
security4
purestorage3
oval3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
devans10/terraform-provider-flash
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
Terraform provider plugin for Pure Storage FlashArray
Contributions:11 releases, 127 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 11 months
providerconfluent-cloudflasharraystorageterraform
devans10/pugo
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
Pure Storage REST client written in Go
Contributions:5 releases, 122 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 2 months
golangrest-clientreststorage
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