David Watson
Senior OpenShift Engineer at Gulfstream Aerospace
Plano, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Watson is a Senior OpenShift Engineer with 20+ years in network and systems engineering and nine years focused on cloud infrastructure and DevOps, currently shaping OpenShift, Ansible and Python integrations at Gulfstream Aerospace. He architects, builds and automates private enterprise clusters and CI/CD pipelines—having containerized multiple Java apps, authored 200+ Ansible playbooks, and led large-cluster upgrades and troubleshooting at Fortune 100 firms. His work blends deep telecom-era Netcool/NetExpert expertise with modern Kubernetes observability, including custom scripts that feed Splunk dashboards and a published ocp_drain_node utility on GitHub. Based in Plano, Texas, he pairs hands-on scripting and systems development with mentoring and delivery leadership, and is comfortable operating across storage, networking, logging and API-driven automation.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
EE/CS, EE/CS at The University of Texas at DallasASEE, Electrical Engineering, 3.8 Magna Cum Laude, ASEE, Electrical Engineering, 3.8 Magna Cum Laude at Collin County Community College
Github Skills (4)
ansible7
openshift7
k8s4
kubernetes4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dfwnetman/ocp_drain_node
Jan 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
dfwnetman/ansible_advance_homework
May 2020 - May 2020
Fork The Repo for completing Ansible Advance Homework
Contributions:61 pushes in 8 days
ansible
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