Dave Wallraff
Engineering Lead For Platform
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Wallraff is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building developer platforms and operationalizing reliability at scale, currently leading platform engineering at Kohl's. He specializes in turning fragmented toolchains into human-friendly, gitops-driven platform products that reduce tech debt and free teams to solve higher-value problems. Known internally as a "Wartime Consigliere" and self-described puzzle solver and "Breaker O’ Things," he combines pragmatic chaos-testing with disciplined SRE practices to improve MTTR and organizational incident response. His career spans SRE, platform strategy, and solutions architecture at enterprises like Symantec, VMware, and Pivotal, where he helped customers adopt container-focused, product-oriented platforms. Based in Minneapolis and grounded in a Computer Science background from the University of Minnesota, he brings a track record of measurable platform improvements—double-digit tech-debt reductions and migration to managed services—while prioritizing developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (18)
cloud-foundry9
end-to-end-encryption7
keybase7
chat7
react6
bosh6
pgp6
rest5
go5
react-native5
ios4
restful4
android4
azure4
electron3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dwallraff/azure-china-auto
Jun 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
pivotal-customer0/pcf-gcp
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:49 commits, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 10 days
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