Summary
David Lochridge is a senior systems engineering analyst with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating secure, scalable software infrastructure. He has led teams managing 350+ AWS instances across air-gapped networks at Sandia National Laboratories and currently delivers enterprise solutions at MGIC while running his own consulting firm, Lochridge Software and Services. His expertise spans DevOps toolchains—Puppet, Jenkins, GitLab, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes—and full lifecycle software delivery from feature development to deployment and maintenance. Comfortable in high-security environments, he combines systems-level thinking with practical software development (including Ruby on Rails experience) to solve complex operational problems. Based in Albuquerque, he brings an owner’s mindset from running a small software services business alongside enterprise engineering roles. Colleagues rely on him for adaptable, pragmatic solutions that bridge development, testing, and secure operations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The University of New Mexico
English, Russian, French, German, Spanish