David Amick
Site Reliability Engineer at Input Output (IOHK)
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Amick is a Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native, highly available systems from the ground up. He specializes in Kubernetes, Golang, GitOps, and CI/CD, having led migrations to Kubernetes, authored custom operators, and built production Go apps to simplify infrastructure management. As a co-founder and chief architect at a game-server startup, he optimized low-latency, cost-efficient GKE architectures and open-sourced tools like UnDyingProxy to automate resource and traffic management. David treats operations as a software problem, designs for failure, and champions developer collaboration to deliver reliable systems faster. Based in Portland, he pairs a fascination for distributed systems, decentralization, and time-series metrics with hands-on work—whether building clusters, fabricating EV chargers, or backpacking with his family.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Home SchoolArt/Art Studies General, Art/Art Studies General at Portland Community College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (162)
timeseries-database10
prometheus-exporter10
operator10
monitoring10
continuous-delivery10
external-secrets10
kubernetes-secrets10
helm10
external-secrets-operator10
pipeline10
postgres-operator10
system-information10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
data-infrastructure10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
snarlysodboxer/BTSyncInator
Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:43 commits in 5 months
snarlysodboxer/inplace-image-tag-updater
Oct 2021 - Mar 2026
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 4 years 6 months
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