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David Collom is a hands-on platform engineering leader with a software engineering foundation and deep experience across Kubernetes, developer platforms, reliability and automation.
Discuss an event02 / Biographies
Written in the third person for event listings, podcast notes and press introductions.
David Collom is a hands-on platform engineering leader and Kubernetes practitioner. With a software engineering foundation, he helps organisations reduce toil, build useful developer platforms and turn operational lessons into practical approaches that engineering teams can apply.
David Collom helps engineering organisations build platforms that developers love. His career spans software development, infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud architecture, SRE, GitOps, FinOps and automation, while remaining firmly grounded in hands-on engineering. David has built internal platforms, reduced manual operational work and helped teams create safer, faster paths to production. He speaks openly about the difficult parts of platform engineering: overspending, automation failure modes, reliability trade-offs and the organisational friction hidden between tools and teams. His talks favour practical evidence and honest lessons over perfect-looking architecture diagrams.
03 / Selected appearances
Conference and community sessions drawn from David's verified career record.
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05 / Enquiries
For conference sessions, podcasts, panels, interviews or technical commentary, contact David directly.
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