David Bryant is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon. He possess expertise in web development, web services, php, html, sql and 25 more skills. He is proficient in German and Swahili. Colleagues describe him as "David is a friendly, creative, problem-solving programmer that always seeks to find faster, better, and easier ways of doing things. He would be a valuable addition to any development team or IT shop looking to build user-friendly tools or automated processes. David built several key systems while at Biola. The most significant one being a clustered, API framework which he then leveraged as a middleware layer between our web applications and IT systems (Active Directory, Open Directory, Google Apps, our ERP system, and several legacy SQL databases). With API servers in place he built a dozen or so applications that leveraged the shared authentication, authorization, and directory lookup APIs. David also built access.biola.edu, a user-friendly web app that abstracts LDAP attribute changes, Active Directory group memberships, and SQL statements to provide end users with an easy to use tool to add/remove user privileges to just about any IT system. This allowed our IT shop to push service provisioning out to the helpdesk and even departments outside of IT."