David Watzke
Linux Systems Lead at Gen™
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolDavid Watzke is a Linux systems leader with 17 years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling large Linux infrastructures, currently leading the global backend operations team for Avast services at Gen™. He specializes in high-performance, mission-critical systems—managing thousands of Debian/Red Hat boxes and driving projects around streaming update delivery, Bash automation, Hadoop (CDH), Kafka, and Kubernetes-based service platforms. David combines deep operational expertise with team leadership, mentoring engineers responsible for both internal and public-facing services across multiple regions. A longtime Linux advocate and technical communicator, he has written extensively for AbcLinuxu.cz and maintains older C++ hobby projects on GitHub, hinting at a pragmatic coder who still enjoys low-level tinkering.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
English, Czech
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Github Skills (49)
validation9
docker8
go8
dashboard8
kubernetes8
monitoring8
mysql8
visualization7
analytics7
prometheus7
elasticsearch7
data-visualization7
scheduling6
grafana6
visualize6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dwatzke/fifteen
Nov 2008 - Jul 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 5 years 9 months
dwatzke/test
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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