Donovan Hubbard is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Seattle with eight years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD pipelines. He has driven reliability and performance improvements at enterprises like Cisco, Kantata, and USAA—leading a migration to managed MySQL, cutting API latency by 40%, and establishing SLO-driven culture and training across R&D. Comfortable across the stack, Donovan’s background spans networking, Linux/Windows server administration, infrastructure-as-code, secrets management, and Splunk in public cloud environments. He pairs hands-on coding (including Unity full‑stack contributions to character and systems UI/UX) with systems thinking to solve thorny production issues and reverse-engineer vendor systems for novel metrics. Known for creating tooling and automation that save operational hours, he also regularly teaches teams Kubernetes and SRE practices. Donovan brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to reliability engineering, informed by a master’s-level information systems education and deep operational experience.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Information Systems, Master's Degree Information Systems at Brigham Young University
Contributions:42 commits, 7 PRs, 14 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Donovan primarily focused on improving the user experience and functionality within the UnityStation project. Their contributions involved adding and refactoring UI elements, specifically the character customization and oxygen control interfaces. The user also addressed bugs related to character naming and implemented server-side logic for managing player internals and respiratory systems. These changes suggest a focus on both front-end and back-end development within the Unity environment.
A service that records and reports when devices are within wifi range. Good for knowing when your kids sneak out at night.
Contributions:46 commits, 17 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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Donovan Hubbard - Site Reliability Engineer at Cisco