David Whiteside
Senior Cloud Architect at National Laboratory of the Rockies
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Whiteside is a Senior Cloud Architect based in Denver with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud and HPC environments. He architects AWS solutions using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and maintains production EKS/ECS clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and container images while supporting research computing needs in AI/ML and data analytics. His background as an HPC engineer gives him deep low-level ops experience—managing multi-petaflop systems, schedulers like SLURM, and storage/HSM integrations—informing pragmatic, performance-oriented cloud designs. He writes Python tooling and web apps (Flask/Django) to automate admin workflows and has contributed practical patches to projects like Ansible and Paramiko to improve smartcard/pkcs11 support. Regularly responsible for training, documentation, and operational on-call practices, he blends engineering, security, and user-facing communication. Expect a practitioner who moves systems from research-grade HPC to scalable, auditable cloud services.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Troy University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (90)
python10
health-check10
energy10
automation10
sudo10
ssh10
network-configuration10
django10
industrial10
temp10
ansible10
client-certificate10
commercial10
django-rest-framework10
documentation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thedavidwhiteside/paramiko
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.
Contributions:10 commits, 79 pushes, 14 branches in 1 month
python
outbit/paintballfieldbuilder
Aug 2013 - Dec 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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