IT SPECIALIST / CLOUD & SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Hi, I'm David Stringham

I build reliable cloud systems and write about what I learn along the way.

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David Stringham
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Building systems that don't wake you up at 3am.

I'm a systems engineer who cares about reliability, clear documentation, and well-told incident retros. For the last 7 years I've been helping teams ship faster without paging each other at midnight.

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Cloud

AWSGCPK8sTerraform

Languages

PythonGoTypeScriptBash

Ops

LinuxPostgresKafka

Practices

SRECI/CDIaC
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Recent work

Open-source tools and platforms I've built and shared.

k8s-cost-optimizer

CLI that analyzes Kubernetes workloads and recommends rightsizing + savings plans. Cut a 40-node cluster's monthly bill by 31% in production.

kubernetes cost-optimization cli go
Go ★ 412 ⑂ 38
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home-lab-platform

Production-grade home infrastructure: k3s, GitOps with ArgoCD, Prometheus + Grafana, automatic cert rotation. Fully reproducible from a single Git repo.

kubernetes gitops terraform observability
HCL ★ 287 ⑂ 24
Code

lambda-cold-start-lab

Benchmark suite for AWS Lambda runtimes + a write-up on the surprising 14x difference between Node 18 and Rust cold starts.

aws lambda benchmarking
TypeScript ★ 198 ⑂ 19
Code Live ↗

incident-runbook-bot

Slack bot that pulls runbooks from a Git repo, renders them inline, and creates postmortem drafts. Used by 6 on-call teams.

sre incident-response slack
Python ★ 156 ⑂ 22
Code

pg-watchtower

Postgres health dashboard — surfaces slow queries, bloat, missing indexes, and replication lag. Lightweight (no agent), pure SQL + Go.

postgres observability
Go ★ 132 ⑂ 11
Code

tf-module-registry

Internal Terraform module registry with policy checks, version pinning, and automatic PR generation. Reduced infra review time 60%.

terraform developer-experience
TypeScript ★ 89 ⑂ 7
Code
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From the YouTube channel

Tutorials, project walkthroughs, and the occasional postmortem.

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Configure API key in Customize → API Integrations
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