David Spearman

Cloud Engineer


Obsessed with intelligent automation, I focus on efficient workflows rather than over-engineering. With 7+ years of experience, I build robust Python ETL pipelines and Kubernetes infrastructure that drive tangible business impact.

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Core Stack

Cloud & Infra

AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, FSx) Kubernetes Terraform Autosys/UAC

CI/CD & DevOps

Bitbucket CircleCI GitHub Octopus Deploy

Software Eng

Python Flask TypeScript JavaScript Bash / PowerShell

Data

SQL: PostgresSQL, MSSQL, SnowSQL NoSQL: MongoDB, DynamoDB, Snowflake Pandas (CSV, Excel) Etree (XML)

Experience

Advanced Software Engineer

Invesco • 2021 - Present

Sr. System Administrator

Aaron's Inc • 2021

Software Developer

Mohawk Industries • 2020 - 2021

Software Developer

ViZZ 3D • 2019 - 2020

Engineering Impact

-95% API Response Time

90s to ~5s Response

  • Vectorizing slow pandas functions
  • Batch downloading vendor data
  • Replacing APIs with local logic
-80% Cost Optimization

$1790 to $360/yr

  • Migrated cloud K8s to Hybrid Cloud K3s.
  • K3s Traefik RR vs load balancers + NGINX.
  • Replacing APIs with local logic
OPERATIONAL

High Availability

  • On-prem HA failover to secondary interface
  • Traffic offloaded via CDN
  • Automated k3s self-healing

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Hybrid-Cloud Workflow: Global Client to Local Kubernetes.

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Client

Cloud Subnet (10.0.x.x)
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K3s

Frontend and Backend Proxies

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Transit

On-Prem Subnet (10.100.x.x)
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K3s & DB

Backend APIs & DBs

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