David Blank-Edelman Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Building the program that onboards and trains Azure's site reliability engineers.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Focused on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Operations best practices.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

Do you wish the existing books on site reliability engineering started at the beginning? Do you wish someone would walk you through how to become an SRE, how to think like an SRE, or how to build and grow a successful SRE function in your organization?Becoming SRE addresses all of these needs and more with three interconnected sections: the essential groundwork for understanding SRE and SRE culture, advice for individuals on becoming an SRE, and guidance for organizations on creating and developing a thriving SRE practice.Found at https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-SRE-Toward-Reliability-Organization/dp/1492090557 or wherever dead trees are sold.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

Organizations big and small have started to realize just how crucial system and application reliability is to their business. They’ve also learned just how difficult it is to maintain that reliability while iterating at the speed demanded by the marketplace. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a proven approach to this challenge.SRE is a large and rich topic to discuss. Google led the way with Site Reliability Engineering, the wildly successful O’Reilly book that described Google’s creation of the discipline and the implementation that’s allowed them to operate at a planetary scale. Inspired by that earlier work, this book explores a very different part of the SRE space. The more than two dozen chapters in Seeking SRE bring you into some of the important conversations going on in the SRE world right now.Found at https://www.amazon.com/Seeking-SRE-Conversations-Running-Production/dp/1491978864 or wherever dead trees are sold.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

Authored two editions of a much loved book (”The Otter Book”) for the premier technical publisher. Expressed best practices for system administration using a prevalent computer language. If you do systems administration work of any kind, you have to deal with the growing complexity of your environment and increasing demands on your time. Automating System Administration with Perl, Second Edition, not only offers you the right tools for your job, but also suggests the best way to approach specific problems and to securely automate recurring tasks.Found at https://www.amazon.com/Automating-System-Administration-Perl-Efficient-ebook/dp/B002L4EXG0 or wherever dead trees are sold.

Worldwide, Us

Co-founded and help run the wildly successful SREcon across the globe.

Worldwide, Us

Contributed semi-monthly column for the USENIX-published magazine. (over 50+ columns published). Can be found at https://www.usenix.org/publications/login .

Worldwide, Us

Elected three times to USENIX board to run one of the top technical conference organizations. Re-engineered and helped run LISA (the largest sysadmin conference in the world), co-founded and helped run the wildly successful SREcon, and URES (release engineering summit).

Create/integrate and manage technical infrastructure using best-of-breed shared/cloud-based services to organize, fund, and produce an annual one-of-a-kind festival of activist street bands.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Found and delivered the narratives crucial to Apcera in a crowded marketplace. Spoke at 20+ invited events all around the world every year, authored many of the technical whitepapers distributed by Apcera, frequent blog post and magazine article contributor. Acted as community manager for trial version of platform. “Source of Technical Truth” on container ecosystem and competitive landscape for internal requests and customer conversations. Pushed the company forward through product management responsibilities. Interstitial engineering and operations when needed.

Boston, Ma, Us

Directed the superb team of professionals who respond to every challenge necessary to create the best possible academic, research and administrative computing environment for the College. Managed staff, strategic technical direction, IT budget, computing policies and the like while staying technically sharp and current enough to execute the engineering, integration and coding details of major infrastructure projects. Oversaw and trained our student sysadmin employees and the members of our volunteer systems group, many of whom have gone on to the top technology companies and academic institutions. Previously responsible for the integrity of the College infrastructure as the primary security contact for the College and general security resource for NEU.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for the administration of the College's production and research network.

Worldwide, Us

Organized (with help of a superb set of volunteers) the 2005 edition of the largest systems administration conference in the world.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Helped power cutting-edge research at a world-renowned research lab by providing cross-group and central infrastructure systems administration. Provided multi-platform support with a focus on UNIX variants and cross-platform integration.

Provided full-service support including end-user help, infrastructure design and operations, software, hardware, network and telecom administration to project development teams locally and at satellite development sites around the country.