Summary
David Valentiate is a pragmatic Lead Ops Developer in Ottawa with 15+ years building web and infrastructure systems, currently leading a team of four to design and operate AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps-driven CI/CD. He combines deep hands-on experience across server-side programming, client web tech, and databases with a steady, collaborative leadership style rooted in engineering discipline. His background spans low-level C and Linux kernel tooling to full-stack PHP/JS web platforms and manufacturing ERP integrations, giving him a rare cross-domain fluency from embedded traces to cloud-native pipelines. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation and durable systems that balance performance and observability, and he thrives on environments that encourage continual technical growth.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng., Computer Systems Engineering, B.Eng., Computer Systems Engineering at Carleton University