Dave Birch Email & Phone Number

Cedar Park, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

As owner of the OneDay web application, I spearhead the development and maintenance of a highly available web application, designed to deliver seamless user experiences. Leveraging modern web standards and a serverless architecture, I help to design responsive and cohesive user experiences with a goal to allow our users to unlock the full capabilities of video delivery and creation.My role is larger than traditional front-end development, encompassing the orchestration of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. This ensures that our application evolves through automated, efficient, and error-free deployments, enabling rapid delivery of features and fixes without sacrificing quality or stability, with robust Integration and E2e testing built in.At the heart of our application's infrastructure is a sophisticated AWS setup, where my expertise with a wide array of AWS services comes to the forefront. Utilizing Amplify and Cognito, we implement secure user authentication and authorization processes, while CloudFront allows us to distribute content globally with low latency, ensuring an optimal user experience regardless of geographical location. Through CloudFormation, I automate the provisioning of our AWS resources, ensuring our infrastructure is reproducible and scalable. Additionally, Serverless compute, especially Lambda@Edge plays a crucial role in my work, allowing me to run functions that customize the content delivered to users, enhancing performance and security at the edge of the network.My role demands a deep knowledge of the AWS tech stack, enabling me to design, deploy, and manage modern cloud-based architectures that support the application's high availability and scalability requirements. I continuously explore and integrate advanced AWS features and services to keep our application at the cutting edge of technology and security standards.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Promoted to Front End Architect

Palo Alto, California, Us

At Carbon Black, I was part of a team developing tools for assiting our threat hunting and monitoring capabilities. This application, built on Flask with Vue/Vuex components, served as a central hub for ingesting security alerts from endpoint monitoring tools. Ingesting alerts fed in to MongoDB via Lambda through Kinesis pipelines, we ensured real-time data flow and analysis, enabling swift responses to emerging threats. One aspect of my work involved the creation of custom loggers. These loggers were crucial for monitoring application state, with automated messaging to AWS CloudWatch to provide visibility and insights into operational health and security incidents. This infrastructure supported our proactive stance on security management and facilitated the identification and resolution of issues before they could escalate.Another significant achievement was as part of a team developing of an intelligent system capable of auto-tagging and categorizing common security warnings, dubbed "Mr Robot". This automation greatly reduced the manual workload for security analysts, allowing them to focus on more complex investigations. By streamlining the process of identifying routine threats, we significantly enhanced operational efficiency and the effectiveness of our security measures.In addition to these contributions, I also took the initiative to build out capabilities into the realm of team communication and collaboration. I developed custom Slack applications that integrated seamlessly with our infrastructure, utilizing DynamoDB for data storage and Lambda functions for improving cross-team engagement and rapport.

Work as part of a small consulting team to help recommend solutions, plan and develop client web-based applications.

Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

At Leveler, a dynamic and fast-paced startup, I played a crucial role in a lean three-person team dedicated to revolutionizing the job and estimating software domain. Our mission was to deliver a robust, user-friendly solution that catered to the unique needs of our target audience, streamlining their workflow and enhancing productivity.I contributed to the development of both the web and mobile clients for our software. For the web client, I utilized Angular and later React to build a responsive and intuitive user interface that ensured a seamless user experience across various devices and platforms. This approach allowed us to maintain a consistent and engaging user experience, promoting user adoption and satisfaction.As the primary developer of our mobile app we leveraged web technologies with Cordova and Ionic technologies to maximize code reuse and extend the software's reach, enabling users to access our platform on-the-go. This mobile client mirrored the efficiency and user-friendly design of our web application, ensuring that users had access to our powerful job and estimating tools, regardless of their location or device.The backbone of our application was a robust backend powered by a MongoDB database and a Flask API. This architecture ensured scalability, performance, and the flexibility to adapt to our users' evolving needs. My work on the backend involved designing and implementing scalable solutions that supported the application's data processing and storage requirements, ensuring high performance and reliability.In this role I actively contributed to the startup's agile environment, adapting to rapid iterations and contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle. Our small, efficient team successfully developed and launched a comprehensive solution that addressed a significant market need, demonstrating our ability to innovate and execute within a competitive landscape, serving thousands of users over the years.

Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Developing SPWA

Foster City, Ca, Us

Responsible for branding, promotion and front end development of Snoball.com, while managing a small creative team for various projects. Tasks include converting legacy site design to a responsive, adaptive design; utilizing JSON APIs to develop front end interfaces for various user groups and developing User Interfaces for client-specific Web mobile, and site-specific apps.

Responsible for branding,promotion and front end development of Collective Labs and its two flagship products, BlinkSend and Snoball. Tasks include creation of motion graphics and videos, front-end design and interface development, assisting in implementation of usability enhancements to all sites and projects.

Us

As part of a web and mobile application consulting team, worked daily with clients managing projects, expectations and ensuring quality work, as well as managing a number of off-site contractors. Responsibilities included advising on and assisting in the development of effective brands and user interfaces.

College Station, Tx, Us

Promoted to Graphics Specialist Position

Developed promotional materials, including school website (available at http://riaweb.net), provided instruction to students in computer skills and technology, and provided basic network and computer support and maintenance.