Summary
David Sielert is an infrastructure-focused technology leader with over a decade of hands-on DevOps and engineering management experience, now serving as Expert Privacy Compliance Product Owner at PG&E. Self-taught in many modern cloud practices, he has a track record of building resilient, observable platforms—driving product launches in under 90 days, instituting alerting and incident response practices, and reducing missed pages. He pairs practical expertise in IaC, Kubernetes, Helm, and Datadog with people leadership, mentoring engineers and delivering measurable operational improvements at healthcare and media startups. Based in Santa Rosa, CA, he blends a pragmatic, security- and privacy-aware mindset with an appetite for teaching and cross-team collaboration, making him comfortable translating complex infrastructure constraints into product-aligned roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Southern New Hampshire University
Information Technology, Information Technology at Heald College-Roseville
Self-taught