David Oppenheimer
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Oppenheimer is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of industry experience and over two decades of systems research and engineering spanning Borg, Omega, Kubernetes/GKE, Anthos, and now Databricks. He blends deep distributed-systems research (PhD work and postdoc) with product-scale engineering at Google and Databricks, helping shape container orchestration and cloud-config management. His contributions to canonical projects like the Kubernetes API demonstrate attention to API correctness, documentation, and long-lived compatibility concerns. Known for moving between research and production, he combines rigorous thinking about schedulers and cluster control planes with pragmatic refinements that improve developer and operator experience.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBSE, Electrical Engineering, BSE, Electrical Engineering at Princeton University
Github Skills (7)
kubernetes10
go10
apidoc10
api-design10
kubernetes-pods10
k8s9
yaml7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/api
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
The canonical location of the Kubernetes API definition.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Kubernetes API definition. They fixed stylistic issues, updated documentation related to node selectors and affinity, and commented out unimplemented code related to NodeAffinity. The user also reverted changes related to taint tolerance. Their work focused on refining the API definitions and ensuring code accuracy.
apikubernetes-apilocationkubernetesdefinition
davidopp/kubernetes
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:94 pushes, 11 branches in 6 months
containerscontainer-clusterdockerkubernetescluster-manager
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