David Nguyen

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in site reliability and scalability.
Proficient in Linux kernel development.
Strong background in back-end development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Systems Reliability Engineer with a strong focus on Infrastructure and SaaS.

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Skills

Core Skills

LinuxConfiguration ManagementPython

Other Skills

BashPostgresFlaskVue.jsSaltStackPrometheusGrafanaGoElasticsearchDockerMachine LearningC/C++MySQLX86x86 Assembly

About

I'm a system administrator who strives to improve site reliability and scalability, but I'm also a software engineer who has experience with back-end development and an interest in operating systems.

Experience

7 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Cloudflare, inc.

Systems Reliability Engineer

Jul 2019 – Aug 2025 · 6 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco, CA

● Managed the fleet of edge servers of the Cloudflare global network
Instrumented monitoring and alerting for server health metrics using Prometheus and Grafana ensuring SLOs/SLAs
◦ Triaged and mitigated production incidents across various Cloudflare products. Examples:
▪ Debugged BGP anycast route configuration
▪ Ran packet captures in named network namespaces for Magic Transit
▪ Coredump retrieval for Nginx-fl (load balancer)
● Responsible for change management of SaltStack configuration management codebase
● Architected server provisioning pipeline
◦ Provisioning information in Postgres behind a Go REST endpoint that synchronizes with Netbox
◦ Wrote Vue.js frontend and Flask backend web app to import data from manufacturer
● Maintained tooling for software release management
◦ Partitioned server fleet into different release environments like Canary or dogfooding
◦ Wrote PL/pgsql stored procedures to keep partitions current with hardware lifecycle
◦ Full stack for web app so engineers can make release plans using said environments
● Linux kernel development. Backported BPF LSM for ARM from 6.4 to 6.1
◦ Familiarity with virtme, qemu, strace, and GDB

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Trackit

Software Engineering Intern

May 2016 – Sep 2016 · 4 mos · Los Angeles, California

● Implemented a RESTful API in Flask (Python) that queries an Elasticsearch database of
Amazon AWS logs to forecast future costs using linear regression
● Automated IBM GPFS deployment with SaltStack
● Wrote Dockerfiles to provision production and development environments

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