David Stark
Platform Principal
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDavid Stark is a Platform Principal based in London with 12 years building cloud-native infrastructure, SRE practices, and automated platforms across startups and enterprises. He has led full cloud migrations and Kubernetes adoption as a platform and lead cloud engineer, and now drives platform strategy and reliability at Ki Insurance. Hands-on with Go, Python, Ansible, Terraform and Neovim, he blends open-source tooling and security-first automation to deliver self-healing, scalable systems on GCP and AWS. His background spans real-time data ingestion, observability and rapid CI/CD pipelines, and he is known for meticulous note-keeping that makes complex operational runbooks reproducible. Beyond typical infrastructure work, he brings a developer’s mindset to platforms—shipping code, contributing to tooling, and tuning the developer experience to reduce toil.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
proxy10
k8s10
hashicorp10
azure-container-registry10
openid-connect10
terragrunt10
hcl10
oauth10
python10
terraform10
oauth2-proxy10
ssh10
kubernetes10
graph10
load-balancing10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
starkers/archbook
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 10 months
chromebookansiblearch
doddle/lander
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
a generic landing page for k8s clusters
Contributions:6 reviews, 35 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 6 months
golangk8s-clustersclustersgenerick8s
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