Dave Barron

Senior Platform Engineer / Senior Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of experience building reliable, self-service infrastructure for cloud-native product teams. Brings hands-on depth in Go, Kubernetes, and production reliability, with a record of translating internal customer needs into scalable platform capabilities, operational standards, and developer-friendly workflows. Experienced leading technical initiatives, improving service observability, and mentoring engineers across distributed teams.

Senior Platform Engineer / Senior Reliability Engineer - Anyscale - San Francisco, CA · Remote

(2023-10 - 2026-09)

• Designed and evolved a self-service platform for distributed AI workloads, combining Go, Kubernetes, GCP, and reliability patterns to help product and engineering teams operate production services independently.
• Built Go-based infrastructure APIs that provisioned and reconciled Kubernetes resources, applying controller-style patterns to standardize service onboarding and lifecycle management.
• Developed reusable Kubernetes deployment templates and Helm conventions for Ray-based compute services, giving application teams consistent defaults for resource sizing, health checks, and rollout behavior.
• Partnered with internal customers to assess platform requirements, guide cloud-native application designs, and turn recurring operational needs into reusable platform capabilities.
• Implemented workload orchestration patterns with Temporal and Go for long-running infrastructure actions, improving visibility and recoverability for asynchronous provisioning workflows.
• Strengthened highly available GCP service operations through Datadog dashboards, monitors, and SLO-oriented alerting, reducing mean time to diagnose recurring production issues by 30%.
• Automated infrastructure delivery through Terraform and GitOps workflows, shortening environment provisioning from hours to under 30 minutes for common platform requests.
• Improved Linux and Kubernetes operational readiness by tuning container resource policies, documenting runbooks, and participating in an on-call rotation for business-critical alerts.
• Explored AI-assisted incident triage workflows that summarized alerts, linked relevant runbooks, and accelerated investigation context for on-call engineers.
• Led architecture reviews and Scrum planning for cross-functional platform roadmap work, mentoring 4 engineers on Go services, Kubernetes APIs, and reliability-focused design decisions.

Senior DevOps Engineer / Cloud Platform Engineer - Shipwell - Austin, TX · Remote

(2022-01 - 2023-09)

• Expanded the cloud platform supporting Shipwell's logistics applications with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and observability standards, enabling reliable delivery of shipment-management services.
• Created reusable CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Helm, reducing deployment time from approximately 90 minutes to 25 minutes across platform-supported services.
• Modernized Kubernetes application delivery through Argo CD and GitOps practices, giving development teams auditable, repeatable promotion paths across environments.
• Built platform automation in Go and Python for provisioning, configuration validation, and operational tasks used by engineering teams supporting carrier and transportation workflows.
• Implemented Datadog monitors, dashboards, and service-level indicators for API and worker workloads, helping maintain 99.95% availability for critical logistics services.
• Evaluated LLM-assisted documentation and incident-summary workflows to improve access to operational knowledge for on-call responders.
• Hardened cloud access through IAM least-privilege controls, Kubernetes RBAC, and centralized secrets handling, partnering with security stakeholders on remediation work.
• Facilitated Agile/Scrum ceremonies and platform roadmap discussions with product and application teams, while mentoring engineers on incident response and cloud-native delivery practices.

Infrastructure Engineer - Shipwell - Austin, TX

(2019-07 - 2022-01)

• Built and operated infrastructure for Shipwell's transportation-management platform using AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker to support growing logistics application workloads.
• Automated AWS account, networking, and compute provisioning with Terraform modules, reducing manual environment setup effort by roughly 60%.

Infrastructure Engineer - HashiCorp - San Francisco, CA

(2016-07 - 2019-06)

• Supported cloud infrastructure and developer workflows using Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Linux systems for teams adopting HashiCorp's infrastructure automation products.
• Developed automation for repeatable infrastructure provisioning and configuration workflows, improving consistency across development and test environments.

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science - University of Texas at Austin