David Sumner
Associate Director
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Sumner is an Associate Director and seasoned IT professional with over 25 years of experience designing cloud and hybrid platforms for education, government, and private industry. Based in Houston, he now leads DevOps, platform strategy, and product enablement at CivicActions, where his teams support applications used by millions and have integrated AI into monitoring and CI/CD to reduce response times and deployment risk. Previously at Oracle he engineered enterprise-scale automated operations that cut setup time by 90%, and as an independent consultant he translated policy into practice—authoring an AI policy framework and building an AI prototype that automates compliant expense reporting. He blends strategic partnership with hands-on execution, aligning infrastructure to mission goals while keeping security, resilience, and compliance central. Known for bringing pragmatic automation and thoughtful governance together, he focuses on technology that measurably serves communities and public-sector missions.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at Western Governors University
English
Stackoverflow
29reputation
3kreached
2answers
6questions
Github Skills (47)
drupal10
travis-ci10
policies10
datastore10
open-data10
php10
portal10
deprecated10
cli-tools10
command-line-interface9
dkan9
ckan9
automated-tests9
minikube8
azure8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dasumner/drupal-acquia
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Docker replica of Acquia hosting environment - matches OS, Apache, MariaDB, PHP and extension versions and PHP configs
Contributions:10 PRs, 20 pushes, 17 branches in 2 months
hostingmysqlreplicaphpconfigs
dasumner/resume
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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