Engineering

Hey! I'm David Greenwald, a platform engineering leader and guitar pedal collector based in Portland, Oregon.

Right now, I'm focused on agentic AI adoption, monolith decomposition, and AWS FinOps.

Experience

  • 2022-2026 • Discogs
    • Platform Manager
    • Senior Site Reliability Engineer
  • 2019-2022 • 10up (now Fueled)
    • Associate Director of Systems Engineering
    • Lead Systems Engineer
    • Senior Systems Engineer
  • 2016-2018 • Freelance web developer
    • Passion of the Weiss
    • Marijuana Moment
    • Rose City Comic Con

Technologies

  • Platforms: AWS | Azure | Cloudflare
  • AI: Claude Code
  • Data: MySQL | Kafka | Elasticsearch | Redis | Memcached
  • Containers | Orchestration: Docker | Kubernetes | Karpenter | Kustomize | Helm | Kyverno | ArgoCD
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions | GitLab
  • Observability: Datadog | New Relic
  • IaC: Terraform | Ansible
  • WordPress: Administration | Optimization | Architecture | Theme/Plugin Development
  • Frontend: HTML | CSS | SCSS | Astro
  • Backend: Python | PHP
  • Scripting: Bash

This site was built with Astro.

Speaking

Press

I was interviewed by the Cloudways hosting platform about my journey from music journalism to WordPress in 2020.

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