David OBrien

Platform Engineer, Ivory Finance - Bazel · CI/CD · Go

Ivory Finance

Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)

3+ years experience

Concordia University

English

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Overview

I work on platform engineering at Ivory Finance in Toronto. Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 15 a week to 1. Previously at Ubisoft. Most at home with CI/CD and observability.

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observabilityCI/CDBazelservice meshKubeflowGoKubernetes

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closes in 3 months

Next role: Platform Engineer in supply chain, Toronto or hybrid

Target roles: Platform Engineer
Level: Mid
Industries: Consumer apps, Fintech
Work mode: Hybrid
Available: 90 days notice
Work authorization: Authorized to work in the ON
What I'm looking for: A team that ships weekly and owns developer platform end to end.
Not interested in: Agencies and outsourcing firms

3 years in platform engineering. Strongest at Go and Kubernetes. Serving notice now.

Toronto, ONservice meshgokubernetes

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Platform Engineer
Mar 2026 - Present
Ivory Finance · 7 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 35 a week to 4.
- Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 782ms to 54ms.
- Wrote the observability service that now handles 80 million requests a day.
Platform Engineer
Oct 2023 - Mar 2026
Ubisoft · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 31% in two quarters.

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Write-up: platform engineering in practice

2026

A long-form guide to platform engineering for people starting out.

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Education

Concordia University
BEng, Mathematics
2018 - 2022

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