David Calvert

David Calvert has a diverse work experience in the field of IT and engineering. David started their career at Computacenter as a System Administrator in 2010 and then moved on to i2n SARL as a System Administrator from 2011 to 2013. David joined Air France as a System Engineer in 2013 and worked on maintaining the reliability of data centers without impacting production services. In 2015, they joined Orange as a System Engineer/Technical lead, where they were responsible for operating on-premise infrastructure and focused on automation, security, and maintainability.

In 2018, David joined Airbus Defence and Space - Intelligence as a DevOps Engineer, where they worked on the conception and implementation of a Satellite Image Processing solution on Google Cloud Platform. David then joined ACOSS in 2020 as a DevOps Engineer, where they worked on the architecture of an on-premise cloud platform based on OpenStack and Kubernetes.

In 2021, David worked as a DevOps Engineer at Powder, an AI-powered gaming clips platform running on AWS. David was responsible for the architecture and implementation of the entire cloud platform, including DNS, load balancing, storage, Infrastructure-as-code, tooling, documentation, CI/CD, Kubernetes, bastions, observability, alerting, and security.

Currently, David is working at Oqton as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, starting from March 2023. From 2017 until now, they have also been an Open Source Contributor at GitHub. Throughout their various roles, David has demonstrated expertise in cloud architecture, implementation, observability, reliability, performance, automation, and security.

David Calvert has a Bachelor's degree (LG02501A) in Information Technology from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. In addition, they have obtained the following certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) from CNCF, Professional Scrum Master (PSM-1) from Scrum.org, ITIL V3 - 2011 (ITILF) from EXIN, and LPIC-1 from Linux Professional Institute. The CKA certification was obtained in September 2021, the PSM-1 certification was obtained in January 2018, the ITILF certification was obtained in July 2013, and the LPIC-1 certification was obtained in February 2018.