David Schlosnagle
Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Vienna, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Schlosnagle is a Forward Deployed Engineer with 15 years of experience building and optimizing backend systems from a Palantir operations seat in Vienna, VA. He blends applied software engineering with performance-first thinking, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Zipkin's brave tracing library, Palantir's gradle-baseline, and the eBPF networking project Cilium. His work spans improving build tooling and code-quality plugins, hardening distributed-tracing concurrency and thread propagation, and micro-optimizing critical networking and load-balancing paths with measured benchmarks. Prior to Palantir he delivered ERP features and mentored teams as a senior consultant at CGI Federal, and holds an M.S. in Software Engineering from George Mason. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, measurable improvements—often the small, non-obvious refactors and error-check rules that raise reliability across large codebases.
15 years of coding experience
B.S., Computer Science, Management Information Systems, B.S., Computer Science, Management Information Systems at Penn State UniversityM.S., Software Engineering, M.S., Software Engineering at George Mason University
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Github Skills (49)
kubernetes10
android-gradle-plugin10
performance-analytics10
performance-monitor10
ebpf10
distributed-tracing10
software-quality10
networking10
java10
performance-measurement10
javas10
performance-analysis10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
performance-tuning10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/gradle-baseline
Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
A set of Gradle plugins that configure default code quality tools for developers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:121 reviews, 24 commits, 47 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `gradle-baseline` project by implementing and improving Gradle plugins focused on code quality and build process enhancements. Their work included creating a new plugin for release compatibility, refactoring code to use more efficient Guava transforms, and correcting the handling of compileOnly and annotationProcessor dependencies. The user also added new error-prone rules and upgraded error-prone versions, improving code quality checks.
spotbugsocto-correct-managedgradlepmdgradle-plugins
cilium/cilium
Apr 2022 - Nov 2023
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 2 PRs, 21 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Cilium project by optimizing code and improving its performance. They refactored various components, including those related to load balancing and policy enforcement, using string concatenation for increased efficiency. The user benchmarked and tested the performance improvements achieved by these changes, demonstrating a focus on optimizing core functionalities. This involved modifications to key areas such as load balancer addresses, policy maps, and identity management.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
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