David Deal

David Deal has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. David currently serves as the Director of Platform at The Linux Foundation since 2019, where they oversee the development of platform services and products. Prior to this role, they worked as a Senior Engineering Manager, responsible for technical leadership and management of the LFX Security and LFX EasyCLA products at The Linux Foundation. Before joining The Linux Foundation, David was a Principal Software Engineer from 2019 to 2021, specializing in building the LF Community Bridge core platform services using Golang and Python backends.

Before their tenure at The Linux Foundation, David worked at Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company. David served as a Software Developer IV from 2018 to 2019, contributing to the development of tooling and automated deployments for OpenStack products. David also worked as a Platform Engineer from 2017 to 2019, focusing on the Logging, Eventing, and Metrics (LME) team to design, implement, and manage a rapid prototype management system.

David's earlier experience includes positions at Datapipe, where they worked as a Platform Engineer in 2017, and Leidos, where they served as a Software Engineer Sr. Staff from 2016 to 2017. At Leidos, they developed distributed cloud-based solutions for the Health Care market.

David's career started at Lockheed Martin in 2003 as a Senior Software Engineer Staff, where they specialized in developing cloud-based genome sequencing pipelines and secure genome services. David also worked on a research project and developed applications and tools leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Rackspace.

Prior to Lockheed Martin, David worked at ORINCON as a Software Engineer from 1998 to 2003. David was responsible for leading the development and integration of services and algorithms for the Predictive Analysis for Naval Deployment Activities (PANDA) project.

David's earliest work experience can be traced back to Titan Corporation, where they worked as a Software Engineer from 1996 to 1998. During their time there, they played a key role in creating a Linux-based data acquisition system for monitoring rocket plumes.

Overall, David Deal has a robust background in software engineering, cloud technologies, open source development, and management, with a focus on the health care and infrastructure domains.

David Deal completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Science from Coleman College during the period from 1994 to 1998. From 2006 to 2008, they pursued a Certificate in Systems Engineering from The George Washington University.