David is a self described “Geek” originally from Silicon Valley. For nearly 30 years David has worked in the defense sector, either in uniform as a USAF Veteran, as a civil servant for the Dept of Navy, or as a contractor.

He has worked in the front lines of both the war on drugs and the war on terror. He has helped build systems that fuse and analyze data to help keep the peace. He move from Dev to Ops, as scaling demands forced his team to adopt microservices and Docker. David was a Docker community leader and frequent presenter at DockerCon.

Having worked as a Site Reliability Engineering, He has led 3 DevOps transformations. In his current role as Director of Cloud and Platform Engineering, David is focused on empowering internal development teams, and giving them the tools they need to build faster and more secure with a whole pipeline of DevSecOps tools and protect the warfighter and our national security.