David Klein Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Redmond, Washington, United States

Building analytics platforms for hardware and software product teams.

• Building a Performance-Profiling-as-a-Service product with AWS.
• Translated docker-dependent client into multi-distro packaged installer CLI, reducing install footprint by 50% while improving system performance and developer QoL.
• Developed security feature to configure and regulate command execution on customer nodes, preventing arbitrary code execution attacks from compromised accounts.
• Designed and built client installation progress tracking behavior, with sane error reporting to manage uncomfortable edge cases like repeat installs, cross-tenant registration, and misconfigured dependencies.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Building performant tools and automated data pipelines to assist the Global Burden of Disease project.
• Improved mean sourcing production time by 90% by parallelizing data retrieval while improving transparency by implementing research requirement-driven reporting
• Decreased monthly ticket rate on owned modeling tool by 50% by improving logging, setting priorities to fix bugs, and more proactive resource prediction.
• Retooled 2 of our largest packages to more modern tooling with improved unit test coverage and CI integration
• Added features and migrated 3 owned visualization tools to k8s

• Building and improving tools to help measure what matters!
• Owned 30+ repos required to generate IHME’s Global Burden of Disease report and support IHME researchers.
• Maintained 8+ data pipelines required to generate IHME's GBD report, all built and ran on IHME's on-prem 27,000-core cluster.
• Provided shared python environments for 100+ modelers to expidite research and standardize modeling practices.
• Balanced research-deadline-influenced sprint priorities while providing daily expertise-specific helpdesk ticket support.

Bs, Applied Physics

Minor in Informatics

Education record

Activities and Societies: Roosevelt Jazz Band