Summary
David Hazinski is a Senior Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and operating secure, scalable cloud platforms, currently driving platform work at Horizon3.ai after leading Starbucks' PaaS efforts. He specializes in Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Go, and event-driven CI/CD, and has a track record of growing platform throughput 250% while containing cloud spend. David combines hands-on implementation of custom controllers, CRDs, and network policy enforcement with strong cross-functional collaboration, developer experience improvements, and proactive cost and security posture management. He mentors engineers and has repeatedly improved team velocity and reliability without increasing headcount, enabling mission-critical services like Starbucks mobile orders and rewards at massive scale. Based in Raleigh, NC, he brings a pragmatic blend of systems engineering and product-minded platform leadership grounded in a CS degree from NC State.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at North Carolina State University