David Mah

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David Mah is an SRE at Dropbox, where he built out several of Dropbox’s “Magic Pocket” storage system’s verification and safety subsystems. More recently, he built Dropbox’s Naoru - an automation platform that is used ot de-risk dangerous maintenance automation tasks.

On the flip-side of career interests, David cares a lot about how to keep folks growing and happy. Towards this, he runs Dropbox’s engineering internship program and is heavily involved in SRE recruiting, particularly university recruiting.

Linked Presentation: 
Bridging the Safety Gap from Scripts to Full Auto-Remediation