David Pippenger
Principal Engineer at Cisco
West Hollywood, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDavid Pippenger is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating highly available, horizontally scalable systems for transaction-heavy environments. Based in West Hollywood, he has advanced from systems administration to senior cloud and architecture roles at Cisco, Metacloud, Live Nation, and Ticketmaster, specializing in Linux, IRIX, Solaris, NetApp/NFS, load balancing, and disaster recovery. He excels at building infrastructure that tolerates near-zero downtime and globalizes services while embedding robust monitoring and HA patterns. Known for bridging deep Unix-era operational expertise with modern cloud architectures, he brings practical, infrastructure-first solutions to complex reliability challenges.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (104)
python10
raspberry-pi10
mqtt9
kafka-consumer9
home-automation9
voice-commands9
container-management9
node-red9
asyncio9
docker9
kibana-plugin9
iot9
database8
helm8
k8s8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
particle-man/fluent-plugin-tcp_mc
Apr 2017 - Nov 2025
Fluent plugin specifically for metacloud use right now.
Contributions:3 releases, 7 PRs, 22 pushes in 8 years 8 months
fluent-pluginfluentdpluginfluent
dpippenger/tf-operator
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Tools for ML/Tensorflow on Kubernetes.
Contributions:1 PR, 30 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
pythonmxnetmachine-learningmlopskubeflow
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