David Ham
Senior Software Engineer, Platform
Downers Grove, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Ham is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years focused on platform and infrastructure engineering, currently building platform capabilities at Grafana Labs. He has led large-scale Kubernetes and CI/CD transformations—migrating deployments to Argo CD and standardizing pipelines that now power 200+ apps across multiple clusters. Previously he founded SRE practices at Clearcover and modernized cloud posture and IaC at Postscript, bringing hands-on experience with multi-account AWS, Terraform, Atlantis, and self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. David blends product-minded UX roots with deep operational expertise, evident in his history of shipping developer tooling like Backstage integrations and building production-grade deployment fleets. He’s based in Downers Grove, Illinois, and is known for turning sprawling legacy stacks into repeatable, well-documented platform services that scale.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Communications Theatre, Communications Theatre at North Central College
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Github Skills (138)
distributed-tracing10
command-line-interface10
grafana10
mailer10
pony10
backend10
kustomize10
gulp10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
jsonnet10
pipeline10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
cd10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
davidham/davidham.github.io
Apr 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches, 2 issues in 6 years 7 months
davidham/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - May 2026
Contributions:23 pushes, 5 branches in 9 years 2 months
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