David Yim

Pacific Biosciences • Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX

Bio

15 years of infrastructure and SRE experience supporting biotech instruments, complex data flows, HPC job queues, deployment pipelines, and escalations support. Built proactive health-check systems that cut server replacements 14x and saved an estimated $4M+ per quarter. Managed fleet-wide software/firmware releases with blue/green deployments via self-built Python + Celery tools. Currently pursuing AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification and building hands-on Kubernetes and Terraform projects. Strong foundation in Python, bash, Linux (Ubuntu/Red Hat), with growing expertise in modern cloud infrastructure and automation. Based in Dallas-Fort Worth area. Open to remote-only, hybrid, or onsite roles within 30-40 minutes drive. Salary target: $160-180k (last base: $207k).

Work experience

DevOps Engineer, Build & Release
Oct 2013 - Apr 2016
Pacific Biosciences

Built bare-metal provisioning pipelines, managed Jenkins CI for multi-language builds, and administered Perforce.

ChefJenkins.NETC++JavaGradle
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Jun 2019 - Jul 2026
Pacific Biosciences

Built a proactive health-check system, managed fleet-wide software/firmware rollouts, and led cross-functional incident triage and knowledge base development.

PythonClaudeCodex
Support Engineer
Feb 2011 - Oct 2013
Pacific Biosciences

SME on instrument blade center and Secondary Analysis software, managed Linux compute clusters, and resolved Salesforce cases.

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Site Reliability Engineer
Apr 2016 - Jun 2019
Pacific Biosciences

Designed and built a Python fleet-management application, led remote instrument installs, and managed Linux compute clusters.

PythonRedisSQLiteSalesforcePuppet

Skills

.NETC++ChefClaudeCodexGradleJavaJenkinsPuppetPythonRedisSQLiteSalesforce