David Bloss Email & Phone Number

United States

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Platform Engineer building software development accelerating tools for OpsLevel customers and employees.
• In my role as a Senior Software Engineer, I successfully led the major upgrade of OpsLevel's Terraform provider from SDKv2 to Terraform Framework. This undertaking mitigates the risk of costly infrastructure.
• Leveraging my expertise in Go(lang) and GraphQL, I developed a code generating program that automates the conversion of OpsLevel's GraphQL API schema into accurate Go data structures used by OpsLevel's Go client..
• Boosting personal and team development efficacy is a key focus of mine. I have created dozens of workflow automation scripts across many code bases that are used daily by entire teams. I have also improved our CI/CD.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Software Engineer working to boost dbtlabs' developer productivity. My work was split between an Internal Services team, a Release Engineering team, and an OSS Tooling Guild.[Release Engineering Team]
• I significantly improved our most critical deployment pipeline by cutting one Github Action's time by 83% (12 minutes down to 2 minutes). This action is responsible for validating and updating values in helm charts.
• I developed a JavaScript Github Action that alerts developers when dbt's CI/CD pipelines failure. This action leverage's Slack's API, is tested with MochaJS, and provides developers with instant feedback on their.
• In general, I developed Github Actions/Workflows, Go modules, Taskfiles, Python scripts, and Dockerfiles that integrated with Kubernetes, helm charts, and ArgoCD. [Internal Services Team]
• To standardize tool versioning org-wide, I wrote a Go program that reads all "asdf" (tool versioning manager) configurations, shows versions of each tool used by each microservice, downloads those tools/versions.
• Utilizing Terraform, I updated our OIDC providers and AWS IAM roles to achieve more secure authentication in our CI/CD.[OSS Tooling Guild]

Livermore, California, United States

• As a cleared Software Engineer at a national research laboratory, I am responsible for developing and maintaining robust codebases, automating workflow processes, and mentoring scientists in specialized areas of.
• Provided physics program with 15+ years of metrics comparing performance data on multiple compilers by developing a Python script that parsed, processed, and formatted years of unstructured test data.
• Drastically improved developer/value feedback loop by architecting efficient Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for multiple teams migrating away from Bamboo or lacking CI in general.
• Refactored and upgraded large C++ program's infrastructure workflow program, documented the process, and delivered two talks on upgrading Python codebases.
• Contributed to multiple High Performance Computing projects written in C++, Python, and Shell scripts.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Full stack Drupal developer for Workday's Community site.
• Instrumental in Community's site upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8. Developed MySQL/Drupal migration scripts for approximately 120K users, 80K media files, 850K subscriptions, 4K organizations, and 2.5M misc records.
• Automated test development with Drupal's PHPUnit based testing framework and behat for UI testing.
• Updated site’s notifications, messaging, and email systems; user access control; and database updates.
• Front end UI enhancements to site via maintaining JavaScript and utilizing Twig (PHP template engine).

Pleasanton, CA

QA Automation, testing, designing, creating, and implementing new solutions toward automating test scripts. Working with application developers, software testers, and conducting research into more efficient and effective testing methodologies.

• Technical Sergeant at the 45 Aerial Port Squadron.Duty positions included:
• Lead QA evaluator
• Wing Inspection Team member
• Vehicle Control Officer
• Airfield Driving Program ManagerRole responsibilities:
• Lead QA evaluator: Training QA augmentees for six major functional sections on personnel task evaluations, equipment/workstation inspections, safety violation recognition/reporting, and proper mentoring/corrective.

Hayward, CA

B.S. in Computer Science with a Software Engineering OptionB.S. in Applied Mathematics

As a missile maintainer, I performed inspections, repairs, and replacements of over 100 active Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles. Duties and responsibilities of this role included both working as the assistant team chief of a precisely orchestrated team and continuously developing my expertise as an individual maintainer.As assistant team chief, I was.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science And Applied Mathematics

Activities and Societies: IEEE

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Missile And Space Systems Maintenance