David Warkentin
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Instructure
South Jordan, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Warkentin is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building resilient, scalable systems and automating infrastructure across media and SaaS environments. Currently at Instructure, he leverages a strong appetite for learning and creativity to design bleeding-edge architectures and solve difficult operational challenges, including large-data collection and deep learning pipelines developed earlier at Deseret Digital Media. His background spans DevOps, software engineering, firmware-adjacent development, and even founding small tech businesses, giving him an unusual blend of product-minded engineering and operational grit. Based in South Jordan, Utah, he’s known for rapid skill acquisition, contrarian technical curiosity, and enjoying deep, fundamentals-focused conversations that drive pragmatic yet innovative solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahComputer Science, Computer Science at Salt Lake Community College
German
Github Skills (124)
python10
automation10
infrastructure10
linter10
remote-execution10
javascript10
virtualization10
vagrant10
ecmascript10
eslint10
static-code-analysis10
infrastructure-management9
package-repository9
linux9
touchscreen9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ev0rtex/autovault
Dec 2018 - Aug 2022
Automated askpass bridge to 1password for use with vaulted
Contributions:14 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
1password
instructure/mkchain
Sep 2022 - Jul 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
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