Building platforms that enable engineering teams to deliver software faster, more reliably and with less operational toil.
I help engineering organisations build platforms that developers love.
I began my career as a software engineer, and I've been fascinated ever since by one question:
How do we make it easier for engineers to build great software?
That question has taken me through software engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, Platform Engineering and cloud architecture. Today, as a Solutions Architect at Komodor, I work with Platform Engineering, SRE and Infrastructure leaders to improve Kubernetes operations through AI-assisted troubleshooting, operational intelligence and cloud-native best practices.
I'm at my happiest when I'm removing friction from engineering organisations—whether that's through better platforms, smarter automation, AI-assisted operations or giving developers the tools and confidence to move faster.
- Building production-grade Kubernetes tooling in Go
- Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms
- AI-assisted SRE and operational intelligence
- Kubernetes reliability and observability
- FinOps and cloud optimisation
- GitOps and automation
- Engineering productivity
- Open-source collaboration
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| Version Checker | Kubernetes image version discovery and automated update recommendations. |
| FinOps Toolkit | Open-source tooling to optimise Kubernetes resources and reduce cloud spend. |
| Office Hours | Intelligent workload scheduling for non-production environments. |
| Terratest Utils | Reusable testing framework for infrastructure and Kubernetes projects. |
Outside of work I'm passionate about helping the cloud-native community grow.
- 🇬🇧 Organiser — DevOpsDays London
- 🎙 Speaker — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
- 🎙 Speaker — ArgoCon
- ❤️ Open Source Contributor
- 🤝 Mentor and community advocate
- Platform Engineering
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Native Architecture
- Internal Developer Platforms
- AI-assisted SRE
- GitOps
- Observability
- FinOps
- Go
- Python
- Developer Experience
- Engineering Leadership
- AI-native Platform Engineering
- Production Go
- Kubernetes automation
- Multi-cluster operations
- Building better developer experiences
🌍 Website: https://david.collom.co.uk
💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davidcollom
📄 CV: https://david.collom.co.uk/cv.pdf
When I'm not building platforms you'll usually find me:
- 🚴 Road cycling
- 🏁 Watching Formula 1
- 🧱 Building Lego
- 🛸 Volunteering as a Drone Pilot for Search & Rescue