David is an architect at Kovarus and lives in Boston, MA. He's been using Puppet since 2009, well before it was the cool thing to do. He has a background in operations for government, higher education, research, healthcare, and SaaS organizations. David has consulted on several Puppet implementations of varying size and complexity and has worked with numerous teams on integrating Puppet into their workflow. David is passionate about open source and contributes to a number of projects. David is an active member of the Vox Pupuli project (voxpupuli.org), an effort to bring together Puppet developers and users to collectively maintain popular modules and plugins. He holds an MBA in management information systems as well as a BA in political science.