David Swift
Staff DevOps Engineer at Plenful
Concord, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDavid Swift is a Staff DevOps Engineer with four decades of software experience and a focused 11-year track record in modern cloud and infrastructure roles, helping early-stage startups and small companies move quickly and reliably. He blends hands-on engineering, security, and operations leadership—equally comfortable shipping code, building infrastructure, or mentoring teams—and has repeatedly migrated critical systems to VPCs, Terraform, and robust monitoring stacks. His career spans high-scale video and ad platforms, gaming infrastructure, and AI explainability projects, with recent leadership at Nomic AI and current work at Plenful. Known as a “chameleon,” he picks the right tool for the job and has a pragmatic obsession with engineering efficiency and quality. Behind the scenes he’s driven SOC2/FedRAMP efforts, built internal MFA and DB tooling, and partnered directly with cloud providers to resolve production crises. Based in Concord, California, he brings rare institutional memory plus the adaptability to tackle new stacks and fast-moving product challenges.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (108)
bug-tracker10
distributed-tracing10
firewall10
terraform10
profiling10
pfsense10
clustering10
monitoring10
duplicate-detection10
graph10
freebsd10
terraform-provider10
aws10
datadog10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ValiMail/terraform-provider-aws
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
Terraform AWS provider
Contributions:11 releases, 11 PRs, 71 pushes in 11 months
providerterraform-modulesaws-terraform-providerterraformterraform-provider
pccowboy/node-triton
May 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
node-jsnodejsjs-librarytriton
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