David Alger
Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Cribl
Springfield, Missouri, United States
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RockstarDavid Alger is a software engineer and Principal SRE with 13 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. He blends cloud architecture (AWS, GCP), IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and Kubernetes operations with deep experience in Magento platform reliability. David is an active open-source contributor — notably adding orchestration, HTTPS certificate generation, a local .test DNS resolver, and Mutagen sync management to the Warden CLI to streamline Docker-based developer environments. Based in Ash Grove, Missouri, he brings a pragmatic, developer-first approach to DevOps and infrastructure automation that emphasizes reproducible local workflows and production-grade reliability.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
dockerce10
docker10
ssl10
tls1210
bash10
docker-compose10
tls1310
dockers10
dns10
mutagen10
scripting9
ci-cd9
shell9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
wardenenv/warden
May 2019 - Apr 2022
Warden is a CLI utility for orchestrating Docker based developer environments
Role in this project:
DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:53 releases, 22 reviews, 1019 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:David contributed significantly to the infrastructure and functionality of the Warden CLI tool. They implemented features such as `up/down` commands for managing Docker-based environments with `docker-compose`, generating SSL certificates for HTTPS, and setting up a local DNS resolver for `.test` domains. Furthermore, the user added commands for managing Mutagen sync sessions for file synchronization and enhanced the project's features for better integration with development workflows, including improved build processes.
wardenlinuxmagento2dockercli-utility
davidalger/homebrew-warden
May 2019 - Aug 2021
Homebrew formula for Warden
Contributions:53 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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