David Lawrence
Director, Platform Engineering
Roseville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Lawrence is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building secure, scalable platform services, now directing Platform Engineering at Albert. He has deep expertise in regulated and financial systems—having architected platforms that processed over $100M annually and led migrations to AWS and Kubernetes. A practitioner of secure-by-design engineering, he contributed to Docker's Notary project, helping shape content signing and key management for trusted software distribution. David blends hands-on backend and automation skills in Go with strategic leadership across SSO, cloud migrations, and platform reliability. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of security, compliance, and developer experience, routinely liaising with C-suite stakeholders on risk and acquisitions. Based in Roseville, CA, he pairs an MEng from Imperial College London with a track record of turning audit-ready requirements into practical production systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computing, MEng Computing at Imperial College London
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Github Skills (23)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
notaryproject/notary
Apr 2015 - Mar 2019
Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 250 commits, 400 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the core functionality of the Notary project by modifying key management, cryptographic operations, and command-line interface features. Their work involved refactoring code, updating dependencies, and introducing improvements to testing and key rotation processes. The user's changes demonstrate a solid understanding of Go programming and the project's underlying trust and security mechanisms. The user also focused on improving the build and release process by refactoring the integration testing.
notarypythondockertrustarbitrary
endophage/docker
Apr 2015 - Oct 2022
Docker - the open-source application container engine
Contributions:41 pushes, 15 branches, 1 comment in 7 years 7 months
containerscontainer-enginedocker
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