David West
Application Developer
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid West is an Application Developer and infrastructure automation specialist with 13 years of experience building resilient, secure, and efficient cloud platforms from Columbus, Ohio. He has repeatedly turned tribal knowledge into repeatable Infrastructure as Code, driving uptime to five-nines-plus and instituting immutable environments, GitOps pipelines, and automated vulnerability and quality gates. His background spans platform engineering, test automation, and release engineering—authoring tools in Go, Groovy, Ruby, and PowerShell to automate deployments, DB maintenance, and repository hygiene. A pragmatic systems thinker, he boosts capacity by increasing bus factor and eliminating bottlenecks, and has also led enterprise architecture reviews to redesign distributed systems for test and release throughput. Unusually for an engineer, he pairs deep technical craft with training in social work and psychology, which he leverages to mentor teams and propagate DevOps culture across organizations.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtWalt Whitman High SchoolBA Psychology, BA Psychology at University of Colorado BoulderMSW Social Work, MSW Social Work at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (200)
live-preview10
charts9
testing9
k8s9
slice9
golang9
docker9
selenium-grid9
saucelabs9
installer9
linux9
helm9
browserstack9
circle9
kubernetes-cli8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
dbwest/lojong
Aug 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:18 PRs, 67 pushes, 35 branches in 7 years 8 months
dbwest/infinitestore
Oct 2018 - Mar 2025
My first rails app
Contributions:19 PRs, 55 pushes, 53 branches in 6 years 6 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrails-appruby
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