David Collom is a Solutions Architect and platform engineer who has worked with Kubernetes for more than a decade. He began as a software developer and systems administrator, and now helps engineering teams design, operate and improve developer platforms.
Press & speaker kit • UK
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Speaking and press information
I speak about Kubernetes and platform engineering using examples from projects, incidents and mistakes I've been involved in. This page has biographies, previous appearances and contact details for organisers.
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Biographies
Written in the third person for event listings, podcast notes and press introductions.
David Collom is a UK-based Solutions Architect and platform engineer. His background covers software development, systems administration, on-premises and cloud Kubernetes, developer platforms and technical consulting. At William Hill he helped reduce environment delivery from three to six weeks to one to two hours. He later worked as a Staff Solutions Engineer at Jetstack and now works at Komodor. David has spoken at KubeCon North America and ArgoCon Europe about Kubernetes cost and reliability. He also helps organise DevOpsDays London and contributes to open-source Kubernetes tooling.
03 / Selected appearances
Previous talks and appearances
Conference and community sessions, with event, slide and video links where available.
04 / Topic areas
Subjects I can speak about
- Building and running developer platforms
- Kubernetes reliability and failure modes
- Developer experience
- Kubernetes cost and FinOps
- Automation and operational toil
05 / Enquiries
Booking and enquiries
For conferences, meetups, podcasts, panels or interviews, email me directly with the event, audience and likely dates.
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