.David Kern. Email & Phone Number

Platform infrastructure work related to development environments, CI, benchmarking and service hosting. Migration to multiple cloud accounts/providers. IaC work with Pulumi in Python. Improvements related to SOC2 compliance.

I was a software engineer on the Developer Experience team for Nextdoor. The team builds and maintains the developer tooling and cloud based infrastructure that keep engineers productive while continuously deploying improvements to Nextdoor.

San Francisco, CA

Simple Life is a California-based insurance platform on a mission to make the insurance enrollment and education process understandable once and for all. We have thrown out the old world approach and have streamlined the flow from the ground up. The Simple Life experience was built with the individual consumer in mind through every step of the process. It.

Organized and directed the team responsible for the adaptation of Idle Games Platform to power GSN Sparcade - a mobile real money tournament gaming service.

Full stack software development including AngularJS and Django.

• Envisioned and developed the client and server components for Starlight Information Platform(SIP). SIP is a complete information management and booking system for reservation of guesttours and is responsible for.
• TCP Load balanced Python/Django application (active-active deployment)
• Elasticbeanstalk on AWS to scale application based on network usage
• Continuous deployment using Fabric and Github pull requests.
• Application monitoring via New Relic
• Multimedia uploads and hosting via S3 with authenticated urls

• My company focused on the development of the Tribal Data information management system.This system was designed to provide mobile data gathering and retrieval, primarily targeted atthe scientific and engineering.
• Developed a custom storage protocol, based on ideas in Google Protocol Buffers. Theprotocol supported compact storage of strongly typed data described by versionedschemas but was 7bit-clean to allow efficient storage.
• Data driven indexing allowed for partitioning and sorting of data by any field or functional.
• Devices maintained a connection to servers using STOMP-like protocol to receive dataupdates in realtime, including data shared from other users.
• Data was keyed and versioned by its content, allowing for deduplication in the cloud datastorage as well as supporting version conflict resolution [Kang et. al. “The hash historyapproach for reconciling mutual.
• Android application was written in Python, directly against the Java based API. A Pythoninterpreter was built into the app and included a Python implementation of the Android APIusing the Java Native Interface and a.

Lead Architect/Developer - Communal Gaming System - IGT LabsWhile in Labs I led the design and prototype development of the Communal Gaming System(CGS). This system provided a multiplayer regulated gaming environment with central outcomedetermination. In order to accomplish this I designed a real time distributed state machine whichused Paxos to create a.

At Cyberview I was employed in a lead developer position in an R&D capacity. My focus was on secure download of content, casino management, deployment and certification automation as well as auditing and data analysis/visualization.As a software developer in this position I was responsible for architecting the server side and distributed systems.