Shaun Davis
Staff Software Engineer at Fly.io
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolShaun Davis is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating distributed infrastructure for global, stateful workloads. At Fly.io he leads the Machines and Volumes efforts—designing placement, bin-packing, and control-loop systems like Governor that push utilization and reliability trade-offs across a worldwide VM fleet. His background includes DBaaS design and production operation at Compose and IBM, where he helped architect Kubernetes operators and managed Redis/etcd-backed services at scale. A YC S11 alum and hands-on open-source contributor (notably to flyctl for PostgreSQL and snapshot management), he blends product-minded engineering with deep orchestration expertise. Based in Madison, WI, he also co-founded and runs a BJJ academy, applying the same systems-thinking to small-business operations and internal tooling.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Management of Computer Systems, Web Development and Administration, B.S., Management of Computer Systems, Web Development and Administration at University of Wisconsin-WhitewaterEntrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Y CombinatorEdgerton High SchoolEdgerton
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Github Skills (16)
management10
command-line-interface10
go10
api10
postgresql10
volumes10
apidoc10
command-line10
dockers9
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
docker9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
dreamhost6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
superfly/flyctl
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Command line tools for fly.io services
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:146 reviews, 135 commits, 268 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Shaun primarily focused on implementing features related to volume snapshots and PostgreSQL cluster management within the `flyctl` command-line tool. Their work included adding commands for listing volume snapshots, creating volumes from snapshots, and integrating new features such as image updates and setting metrics paths. Additionally, the user contributed to the core API functionality by adding new endpoints and modifying existing ones to support the new functionalities related to PostgreSQL and volume management. They were involved in enhancing the platform's capabilities for managing and interacting with PostgreSQL services running on machines.
golangcommand-line-toolsflyio-toolsfly-iocli
superfly/stolon
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
PostgreSQL cloud native High Availability and more.
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 3 months
golangavailabilitydockerkubernetespostgres
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