Dave Finster
Staff Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering At Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolDave Finster is a Staff Systems Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering at Google, bringing a decade of hands-on experience delivering reliable, scalable systems that power end-user outcomes. A generalist with full-stack fluency, he focuses on reliability, automation, performance, safety, and meticulous instrumentation of production systems. As CTO of Docketbook, he led the build of a data-accessible, resilient platform using Docker, Joyent Triton/Manta, Consul, and the ELK stack, with Sydney-based data-center operations and HA networking. His career spans leadership and hands-on engineering across .NET, Ruby, Node.js, Go, Java, and embedded C/C++, plus databases such as Postgres, MSSQL, MongoDB, CockroachDB, Elasticsearch, and Riak. Based in Sunnyvale, California, he earned a BE with Honours in Software Engineering from The University of Queensland and brings broad system knowledge to deliver auditable, production-ready software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Software Engineering with Honours, BE, Software Engineering with Honours at The University of QueenslandBrisbane Boys' College
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Github Skills (139)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
davefinster/coder
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:72 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
davefinster/system-configs
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:49 pushes in 8 months
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