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David Alexander

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Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer at Redpanda Data
📍 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

David Alexander is a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer specializing in cloud-native security and automation. With extensive experience scaling HashiCorp Vault services for Fortune 30 companies, he is a trusted advisor on security architecture. He holds a BS from Ball State University and is described as exceptionally bright and loyal.

He leads with a professional philosophy centered on openness, including open source and open information. Outside of work, David values disconnecting from hustle culture, illustrated by a recent five-mile bike ride he took for the simple enjoyment of it, not for any professional lesson.

Interesting fact: David co-authored and published a much-needed pattern for using HashiCorp Vault, simplifying a previously complex security architecture for other engineers.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer
Job Level
Middle
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Cloud Security
His entire career, from Elevance Health to HashiCorp and Redpanda, focuses on automating and improving cloud-native security, particularly secrets management.
Infrastructure as Code
He has extensive experience engineering IaC workflows with tools like Chef and Terraform, and has recently been exploring Ansible's capabilities for creating custom modules.
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Career

Work history

10-2026
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer
Redpanda Data
1-2025 - 10-2026
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer
HashiCorp
9-2021 - 1-2025
Info Security Sr Advisor (Lead)
Elevance Health
1-2019 - 9-2021
Automation Engineer
KAR Auction Services, Inc
2-2017 - 1-2019
Automation Engineer
Salesforce
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Education
2008 - 2013
BS
Ball State University
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