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Dave McAllister

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Sr OSS Technologist at NGINX, part of F5 at NGINX
📍 Redwood City, California, United States

Dave McAllister is a Sr. Open Source Technologist at NGINX (part of F5), focused on driving enterprise growth through open source innovation. A graduate of Old Dominion University, he has held senior roles at Adobe, BP, and Lockheed Martin. People who have worked with him often describe him as brilliant, insightful, charismatic, and intelligent, and he has been named a top pioneer in open source.

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Experience
41 Years
Current Role
Sr OSS Technologist at NGINX, part of F5
Location
Redwood City, California, United States
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Priorities

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Open Source Innovation
A long-time champion for open source since the early days of Linux, he now works with open source projects at NGINX to solve challenges in distributed systems.
Kubernetes & Cloud Native
His recent blog posts and work focus on the complexities of Kubernetes networking, particularly migrating from ingress controllers to the Gateway API using NGINX Gateway Fabric.
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Career

Work history

9-2021
Sr OSS Technologist at NGINX, part of F5
NGINX
12-2019 - 9-2021
Sr. Technical Evangelist
Splunk
4-2018 - 12-2019
Community Manager and Evangelist
Scalyr, Inc
8-2016 - 3-2018
Director of Developer Engineering
Solace
6-2016 - 12-2016
Director, Philosophy Talk Radio
Stanford University
In the press

Media appearances

New NGINX Community Chats Episode: My Chat with Dave McAllister!. Featured in NGINX Community Forum
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15 NGINX Metrics to Monitor | Dave McAllister | Conf42 DevOps 2025. Featured in YouTube
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Education
1975 - 1978
BS
Old Dominion University
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