David Josephsen
Principle SRE at PrizePicks
Livingston, Montana, United States
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RockstarDavid Josephsen is a Principal SRE with 11 years of focused reliability and observability experience, currently leading infrastructure efforts at PrizePicks after a multi-year tenure building network control and telemetry systems at Fastly. He specializes in designing data pipelines and control systems that optimize performance, cost, and reliability at scale, backed by a long history of hands-on SRE work across email delivery, metrics platforms, and systems engineering. David’s career spans startups and large engineering organizations where he’s blended deep technical craft with practical tooling—everything from developer advocacy at Librato to directing systems engineering at dbg.com. Based in Livingston, Montana, he pairs a pragmatic, slightly irreverent engineering voice (occasional book author) with a knack for replacing brittle tooling with elegant, open solutions. Colleagues rely on him for hard-to-reproduce operational fixes and for turning monitoring signals into actionable control loops. He brings a rare mix of old-school systems knowledge (SGI, Cray-era exposure) and modern cloud-native observability practice.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (105)
terraform10
opentelemetry10
librato10
golang10
database10
graph10
driver10
infrastructure-as-code10
logging10
unix9
validation9
text-based9
sql9
nagios9
dependency-management9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
djosephsen/lazlo
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
A chatops automation framework for Slack in Go
Contributions:4 PRs, 64 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 3 months
automation-frameworkchatopsgoslack
djosephsen/djosephsen.github.io
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:34 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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