Dave Johnston
Principal Engineer at Lava.ai
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDave Johnston is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a deep background in carrier-grade telecom and cloud-native systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Lava.ai. He has led greenfield projects and technical teams—most notably as a lead on Puppet Remediate—and is fluent in Go, C++, and Java while deploying services to Swarm and Kubernetes. His career spans NFV and SDN work, OpenStack cloud builds, VNF orchestration, and pragmatic DevOps automation using Puppet and ENC tools like Foreman. Comfortable across Solaris and Linux platforms, he combines low-level performance engineering with design for cloud elasticity and high availability. Colleagues rely on him for delivering high-throughput, production-grade systems and for translating legacy products into resilient cloud-native services.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Software Engineering, BEng Software Engineering at Ulster UniversityBEng Software Engineering, BEng Software Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University
Github Skills (117)
java-server10
nodejs-server10
feature-flags10
sdk10
winrm9
puppet9
provisioning9
bolt9
golang9
cloud-services9
java9
android-sdk9
cd9
go9
dotnet8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
drone/ff-test-cases
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Test cases for FF SDKs evaluator tests
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
testcasetestingfeature-flags
davejohnston/ff-golang-server-sdk
Mar 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 45 pushes, 43 branches in 3 years 4 months
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