Dave Mangot
Founder & CEO at Helpful Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDave Mangot is a veteran DevOps and SRE leader with 14+ years of experience modernizing infrastructure and software delivery across Silicon Valley, now founding Mangoteque to help engineering teams eliminate burnout and repetitive work. He has led global SRE at scale—managing multi-team operations and a $5M budget at SolarWinds—and drove Infrastructure-as-Code and automation transformations at Salesforce and Tagged. Dave focuses on pragmatic, people-first change: improving throughput and reliability without adding headcount or intrusive tooling, a philosophy informed by Deming and decades of hands-on ops work. He also organizes pro-bono global DevOps efforts for Helpful Engineering, applying his enterprise lessons to critical volunteer-led projects. Based in San Francisco with a BA in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins, he blends systems thinking, human-centered leadership, and measurable operational outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (56)
graph10
terraform9
devops9
iaas9
infrastructure-as-code9
oauth9
paas9
vagrant9
python8
automation8
gedcom8
family-tree8
infrastructure8
configuration-management8
ruby8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dmangot/Mastering-DevOps
May 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
dmangot/pf-graphite
Jan 2016 - Nov 2018
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Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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