David Wahlstrom
Senior Production Engineer - Storage at NVIDIA
White Sulphur Springs, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Wahlstrom is a Senior Production Engineer and infrastructure architect with 13+ years of hands-on experience building and automating large-scale Linux, storage, and cloud systems. He has driven production reliability and orchestration across roles at DreamHost, Isilon, and NVIDIA, specializing in Python-driven automation, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph/KVM storage, and configuration management (Puppet/Ansible). As a former Principal Data Architect he designed high-throughput data pipelines and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse) and still combines SRE rigor with data-first decision making. A habitual open-source contributor, he has improved i3pystatus with new modules, tests, and refactors—demonstrating attention to code quality beyond core ops work. Based in rural Montana, he balances multi-datacenter, compliance-conscious infrastructure design with a practical, ops-first engineering style that favors automation and measurable SLAs.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Hardware/Software, Computer Hardware/Software at Tacoma Community CollegeBS Network and Communications Management, BS Network and Communications Management at DeVry University
English
Github Skills (11)
api10
python10
apidoc10
stat10
slstatus10
i310
http-request9
unit-testing8
documentation7
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
enkore/i3pystatus
Jun 2015 - Nov 2021
A complete replacement for i3status
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 34 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:David contributed significantly to the `i3pystatus` project, a replacement for i3status, by developing new modules and improving existing ones. Their work includes creating modules for openstack_vms and Dota 2 win rates, and adding support for Tesla charge status, and a stock ticker. The user also focused on code quality, addressing pep8 compliance issues, fixing typos, and refactoring code. Furthermore, they added unit tests and improved documentation for several modules.
i3statuspythonreplacementi3bari3
drwahl/puppet-koji
May 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
kojirpmansibleconfigurebuild-system
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