David Magton
CEO at Flant
Blaustein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarDavid Magton is a seasoned technology executive and hands-on engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure from Germany. As CEO of Palark and CTO at Flant, he blends strategic leadership with deep DevOps expertise, particularly around Kubernetes platform engineering and deployment automation. His open-source work on notable projects like Deckhouse and werf highlights practical contributions to JSON logging, Docker registry integration, and build/test infrastructure improvements. Comfortable merging systems-level changes and code quality refactors, he bridges developer ergonomics and production reliability. Based in Blaustein, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with regular code commits, showing he still dives into implementation details rather than delegating all technical work. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic operator who improves observability and delivery pipelines while steering product and company strategy.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
rubocop10
docker10
software-quality10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
automation-testing10
logging10
automations10
testing9
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
go9
openstack5
terraformer5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
deckhouse/deckhouse
Oct 2017 - Dec 2020
Kubernetes platform from Flant
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1936 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:David made commits that primarily revolved around incorporating JSON logging into the core functionality of the Deckhouse platform. These changes involved modifications to the Docker registry manager and start-up scripts, indicating an emphasis on system-level integrations and logging. Furthermore, the user was involved in merging changes from other team members that included fix for cloud provider for OpenStack and VMware.
kubernetes-distributionkubernetesflantkubernetes-platform
werf/werf
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
A solution for implementing efficient and consistent software delivery to Kubernetes facilitating best practices.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:162 commits, 16 PRs, 144 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on refactoring and applying style improvements to the codebase, specifically using Rubocop for code quality. They addressed various style issues, including string literal usage and ambiguous operator patterns, and deprecated class methods. Furthermore, they implemented and refined the project's build and test infrastructure by improving the Ruby gem build process and added additional tests.
docker-imagegiterminismcontinuous-integrationiacwerf
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