Oliver Davidson

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Engineering Manager at Fairway Group · Platform engineering

Fairway Group
Portland, OR · PT (UTC-8)
8+ years experience
Rhode Island School of Design
English
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Overview

Based in Portland. I lead platform engineering at Fairway Group. Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 13 a week to 2. Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Procter & Gamble and Lockheed Martin. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

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  • Advice on platform engineering
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Second opinions on AppSec decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • SEO and link-building offers

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
GoAppSecCI/CDBazelobservability
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Happy to advise early-stage teams on platform engineering

Topics
platform engineering, Bazel, CI/CD
Format
Calls
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

8 years of platform engineering. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Portland, ORappsecobservabilityci/cd
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HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for a backend engineer who has worked on AppSec at scale

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$179k-$231k + equity
Team
Developer platform, 13 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with AppSec Production experience with Go Ownership of something end to end
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $189k-$318k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Portland, OR · remote OKappsecobservabilityci/cd
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Fairway Group · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Portland, OR
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 4.
    • Built the experimentation framework 14 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 37% in two quarters.
  2. Senior Platform Engineer
    Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
    Procter & Gamble · 2 yr · Full-time · Portland, OR
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 16 a week to 2.
  3. Platform Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
    Lockheed Martin · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Portland, OR
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 580ms to 59ms.

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Education

  1. Rhode Island School of Design
    BFA, Electrical Engineering
    2014 - 2018

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