David Yurek
Principal Platform Engineer
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Yurek is a Principal Platform Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm and ECS. He has repeatedly built hosting solutions from the ground up—most recently architecting and running a full AWS stack (ECS, RDS, CloudFront, Lambda) and leading migrations from bare metal and third-party hosts into container platforms with minimal downtime. A practical generalist, he blends infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Packer, Ansible), secure architecture (HIPAA-aware practices), and developer ergonomics to standardize and automate delivery for engineering teams. He also brings a curious systems mindset outside work, experimenting with Rust for tooling and implementing webhook integrations and monitoring suites that improve observability. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and a first-line manager, he’s built repeatable platform patterns that scale across startups and large media environments. Based in Louisville, KY, he balances deep operational rigor with a penchant for pragmatic, developer-friendly automation.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Kentucky
English
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Github Skills (48)
git10
github10
patch10
subversion10
jumpstart8
docker7
laravel5
rancher5
kubernetes5
lumen4
php4
orchestration4
api3
django3
react-router3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
millidavids/react-likes-changes
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 12 days
react-routerrouterreactlet
PencilInHand/spotted
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:10 PRs, 199 pushes, 6 branches in 9 months
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