Donald Clark
Senior Engineering Manager at Palo Alto Networks
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Clark is a senior engineering manager with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, observability, and high-performance telemetry pipelines. He has led teams across growth-stage and enterprise environments—including Cash App, Chronosphere, and now Palo Alto Networks—specializing in distributed systems, compute, and reliability for large-scale telemetry and traffic platforms. Donald combines hands-on engineering roots from roles at Square and Ocient with strong managerial experience in incident response and platform foundations, enabling rapid delivery of resilient systems. Based in Oklahoma City, he brings a practical focus on measurable observability outcomes and pipeline efficiency that reduces operational overhead. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances technical depth with team coaching to turn complex data and performance problems into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Computer Science at University of Michigan
English, Japanese
Github Skills (25)
logging10
fluentd10
docker9
fluent-bit9
microservices8
stream-processing8
opentelemetry8
viewer8
prometheus8
linux8
promql8
scenarios7
monitoring7
windows7
bsd7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cashapp/logquacious
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
Logquacious (lq) is a fast and simple log viewer.
Contributions:7 reviews, 2 comments in 1 year
simple-loglog-viewerloggingviewerelasticsearch
cashapp/misk
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Microservice Kontainer
Contributions:8 reviews, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
dockermicroservicemicroservices
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