David Symons
Technical Account Manager at Weaveworks
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDavid Symons is a Technical Account Manager and seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and automating cloud-native teams and delivery pipelines across startups, SMEs and global enterprises. He blends DevOps and software engineering expertise with people-first leadership, having led engineering and DevOps initiatives at companies including Weaveworks, Toyota Connected Europe, Expedia Group and Riot Games. Skilled at scaling multi-country, multi-language teams, he focuses on performance, quality and agility to accelerate innovation and reliable shipping. A pragmatic engineer who practices continuous testing, learning and automation, he also contributes to open-source tooling—helping maintain the build process for a GitOps controller integrating OpenTofu/Terraform. Based in the UK, he brings an infectiously positive, collaborative approach and a track record of turning complex operational challenges into repeatable, automated systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, English
Github Skills (8)
terraformer10
kubernetes10
docker10
dockers10
terraform10
kubernetes-pods10
gitops9
go9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
flux-iac/tofu-controller
May 2022 - Sep 2022
A GitOps OpenTofu and Terraform controller for Flux
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily revolve around the configuration and maintenance of the build process for the `tofu-controller`. Their commits indicate updates to the Terraform binary version and corrections within the build process, specifically related to the `runner.Dockerfile`. The user made repeated corrections regarding error messages within the codebase.
gitopsopentofuterraformkubernetesflux
o6uoq/o6uoq
Nov 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:8 PRs, 120 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 4 months
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