David Koblas
Sr. Director Of Engineering at Vail Resorts / Northstar At Tahoe
Truckee, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Koblas is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on software architect with 14+ years building scalable, production SaaS and distributed systems from startups to enterprise. Currently Sr. Director of Engineering at Netskope, he drives multi-region Borderless WAN services while still contributing to code and QA—recently improving API Gateway header handling in the widely used aws-sam-cli. He has led engineering teams through rapid growth and high-stakes scaling (helping systems process billions in transactions and delivering 100x client scale improvements) and has deep experience across AWS, containers, event-driven architectures, and performance instrumentation. A pragmatic player-coach, he routinely blends architecture, CI/CD, and security practices to ship reliable services with fast cycle times. Based in Truckee, CA, he pairs a physics background with early systems and networking roots, and uniquely balances executive strategy with day-to-day coding and mentoring.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at University of OregonEMT, EMT at Foothill Collegesouth eugene high school
Norwegian
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Github Skills (20)
python10
apidoc10
testing10
tornado10
aws-sam10
api10
serverless10
json9
pytest9
if-statement9
pipe9
fileio6
cyclone6
dns6
command-line6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sam-cli
May 2018 - May 2018
CLI tool to build, test, debug, and deploy Serverless applications using AWS SAM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:David focused on enhancing the API Gateway functionality within the AWS SAM CLI tool. Their contributions primarily involved modifying the `CaseInsensitiveDict` class to preserve the case of header entries and fix associated bugs. They added comprehensive functional and unit tests to ensure the correct behavior of the API Gateway, specifically addressing case-insensitive header handling and content type configurations. These changes improved the robustness and reliability of the local API Gateway simulation.
api-gatewayclipythonserverless-applicationsserverless
koblas/react-amplitude-hooks
Apr 2019 - Dec 2021
Amplitude React components supporting hooks
Contributions:12 releases, 3 reviews, 37 commits in 2 years 8 months
analyticsreactreact-hooksamplitudereact-components
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