David Rager Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Golden, Co, Us

Chief Cloud Technologist – National Renewable Energy LaboratoryAdvanced Computing, Computational Science CenterCloud Strategy and Hybrid Workloads: Lead NREL in leveraging cloud computing for research and operations, designing hybrid workload strategies across supercomputing, cloud, and edge environments.AI and LangChain Tooling: Developed and implemented AI tools using LangChain, integrating OpenAI, AWS Nova, Anthropic Claude, and GCP Gemini models with advanced techniques like LangGraph and ReAct prompting to support research and outreach.Knowledge Graph Expertise: Architected the NREL Knowledge Graph in collaboration with a research team, overseeing data preparation, import processes, and integration of LLM-based tools for advanced question answering.Technical Leadership: Oversee a team servicing 200+ cloud-based projects in AWS, Azure, and GCP, driving innovation and efficiency for diverse research and development efforts.Conference Leadership: Co-founded and helped launch the DOE-based multi-lab cloud computing conference, FUSION, which has been held twice annually for six years, fostering collaboration and innovation in cloud computing across DOE labs.Key Projects:Open Energy Data Initiative- Visionary for data pipeline strategies to enhance accessibility and usability.Los Angeles 100% Renewable Study- Delivered big data analysis and data management solutions for impactful renewable energy research.NREL Institutional Knowledge Graph- Designed and presented public-facing Knowledge Graph content via LLM interfaces and APIs, integrating prompt engineering and data strategies to deliver answers to complex research queries.Expertise in Emerging Technologies- Proficient in cloud and hybrid architecture, AI tooling, data strategies, and knowledge graph development.Public Presentations and Outreach- Regularly represent NREL through presentations and discussions on advanced computational methods and tools.

Anchorage, Ak, Us

Cloud consulting on fitting services to AWS. Security, HA, microservices, cost optimization, and Docker-based dev pipelines to the cloud. CI primarily with Bamboo and ElasticBeanstalk on multi-container ECS clusters in AWS. Neo4j, Postgres, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB data layers.

Louisville, Co, Us

In charge of building, deploying and managing the AWS cloud infrastructure and automation for the next generation Gaiam TV platform.Deployments include:Node.js Docker containers deployed to Elastic Beanstalk. Cassandra ring, Kafka cluster and Zookeeper/Exhibitor deployed via OpsWorks and EC2 Container Services. API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, DynamoDB Streams, Kinesis Firehose and ElasticSearch events processing service. Some deployments on CloudFront (CORS from S3). All deployments leveraged multi-AZ auto-scaling or auto-healing. Cassandra was configured for multi-region sync. Also provided cost estimations, IAM roles management, security group strategy and integrations/monitoring via DataDog and NewRelic.

Denver, Co, Us

Created the driving Business Intelligence vision and strategy.Developer and manager of Digital First's Amazon Web Services cloud-based data warehousing and internal reporting system to simplify data standardization, aggregation and analysis across multiple data sources. Initiated and provided direction on page speed and SEO initiatives for web and mobile digital assets.Introduced the development group to a micro services approach to development on AWS.

Denver, Co, Us

SEO strategist and Software Manager for Digital First Media websites under Media News Group and the Journal Register Company.

Architect, developer and operator of Amazon Web Services cloud-based, utility scale solar power plant monitoring and analytics software deployed to 17 utility power plants in the US and Canada.Systems were largely built in Python and leveraged auto-scaling to augment high availability.

As Principal Engineer, worked with a small team of staff and contractors to launch examiner.com to support 3 newspapers. Helped to shift the business to community generated content site, which launched it into the Quantcast top 50 US sites. As Director of Architecture and member of the Technology Leadership Committee helped to modify the development process in adoption of Agile, assist with scoping and pricing of large contract proposals for sale or lease of the platform, and created the ETL/Data collection process and AWS-based data warehouse used heavily in valuing the company.

Developed online applications for multiple clients.

Software development of international trade website and applications.

Ms, Information Technology

Mba, Project Management

Ba, International Affairs