David Pell
Staff SRE, Staking at Coinbase
South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Pell is a Staff SRE specializing in staking at Coinbase with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable infrastructure and developer tools across Ruby, Go, and Python. He has a strong track record in observability and runtime platforms—managing Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Kafka, and containerizing legacy workloads onto Kubernetes—while designing internal PaaS and CI/CD pipelines that served hundreds of engineers. His background includes leading runtime infrastructure at Stitch Fix, automating large-scale AWS deployments at REAN Cloud, and shipping data pipelines and ETL for high-throughput NLG systems. Comfortable across serverless, Docker, Terraform, and distributed systems, he pairs hands-on coding with operational leadership to reduce MTTx and improve developer productivity. Based in South Carolina, he brings a mix of academic rigor (advanced study at Notre Dame and Duke) and practical automation experience, including building custom logging components in Go and SOX-compliant deployment pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. (Unfinished), Ph.D. (Unfinished) at Duke UniversityMaster of Arts, Cumulative GPA: 3.9, Master of Arts, Cumulative GPA: 3.9 at University of Notre DameArabic Language, Intermediate-High, Arabic Language, Intermediate-High at Qasid Arabic Institute (Amman, Jordan)Bachelor of Arts, 3.75 (3.9 major), Bachelor of Arts, 3.75 (3.9 major) at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Dutch, German, classical latin, Arabic, classical greek, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
argparse10
api10
github-api10
html10
reflection10
ruby10
activerecord10
introspection10
cobra10
cli-application10
kitchen10
ruby-on-rails10
getopt10
sdk10
cli10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
davidcpell/dotfiles
May 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:57 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
davidcpell/tic-tac-bros
Apr 2015 - Jan 2020
tic tac toe on rails, featuring mario & luigi
Contributions:1 release, 10 PRs, 75 pushes in 4 years 9 months
ruby-on-railsrailstoerubytac
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