David Lystad
Principal Software Engineer In SRE at Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)
Pullman, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Lystad is a Principal Software Engineer in SRE with 11 years of hands-on experience designing resilient distributed systems and infrastructure-as-code, currently leading reliability efforts at Donnelley Financial Solutions. His technical focus spans Go, C#, microservices, and CI/CD platforms—skills honed by architecting parallel test distribution systems and production SRE tooling. A former Marine Corps CBRN specialist, he brings disciplined operational rigor, inventory/accountability mindset, and team training experience to large-scale engineering problems. Based in Pullman, WA, David combines a preference for simple, defensible designs with a track record of shipping pragmatic automation that reduces toil and improves system reliability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Elma High SchoolAA General Studies, AA General Studies at South Puget Sound Community CollegeBachelor of Arts Degree Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts Degree Computer Science at Washington State UniversityGithub contributions (5)
WSUGlobalCampusITAs/JunkCodeRemover
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
WSUGlobalCampusITAs/wsu-gc-calendar
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:73 pushes, 9 branches, 11 comments in 8 months
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