David Sale
Senior Core Engineer at John Wiley and Sons
Leigh, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDavid Sale is a Senior Core Engineer with over a decade of experience building resilient systems at Sky UK and a background that progressed rapidly from Sky’s graduate academy to senior engineering roles. He specializes in Java and Python within agile environments, bringing practical expertise in testing practices validated by authoring the book "Testing Python" on TDD, BDD and enterprise testing strategies. His career includes leadership experience at Booking.com as an Engineering Manager and hands-on delivery across core platform teams at Sky. David combines a practitioner's attention to quality with a propensity for adapting workflows to evolving business needs, making him effective in high-profile, fast-changing organisations. Based in Leigh, England, he continues to seek new challenges where he can apply rigorous testing and adaptive engineering to complex problems. An often-overlooked strength is his proven ability to balance full-time delivery with publishing technical work, demonstrating strong time management and communication skills.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
controller10
http-proxy10
contour10
controller-manager9
authentication9
ingress-controller9
kubernetes9
proxy9
ingress9
aws9
dex8
cli8
python8
continuous-integration8
instrumentation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
saley89/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws
Mar 2023 - Mar 2024
Gardener machine controller manager provider for AWS
Contributions:12 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
saley89/contour
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy.
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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