David Staas Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Distinguished Technologist leading overall data architecture efforts for HP’s data platform for device and application telemetry and analytics. Driving architectural improvements to data pipelines and HP’s data privacy infrastructure. Strategic initiatives include improving data observability and data quality both inside the platform and across the ecosystem. Also continuing to lead overall technical architecture for China data privacy implementation, including technical coordination of various teams for network circuits, cloud providers, source control, CI/CD, runtime, and identity management, working closely with HP Privacy and Legal.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

As part of HP’s Digital & Transformation Organization, Distinguished Technologist leading the architecture for various solution initiatives to enable hybrid work solutions, modernize IT, secure employee workspaces, and handle mission-critical workloads. Spans customer, partner, and internal, as well as process and technology components. Leverages my background in software architecture, data, and scalable cloud deployments to transform and modernize HP’s ecosystem for selling, delivering, and managing hardware, software, and services.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Lead architect for HP's Digital Strategy & Solutions, helping to revolutionize HP into a world-class software and services company via HP's digital transformation initiatives. Key work areas currently include:- Leading the overall architecture for deployments in China;- Co-leading HP's software developer experience (strategy, vision, and career pillars);- Enabling HP's domain, enterprise, and solution architecture efforts;- Maintaining close ties with HP's data strategy and teams;- Guidance and strategy on HP's company-wide machine learning initiative

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Distinguished Technologist leading key elements of HP's data, cloud, and AI/ML strategies. Includes company-wide data platform architecture, common environment strategies for CI/CD and ML, and connectivity strategies for emerging businesses and new devices.Recent projects include leading data integration architecture for HP's Enterprise Business Planning transformation and leading HP's data regionalization effort for China/EU.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Leading efforts related to big data, machine learning, AI, and IoT. Working cross-organizationally leading technology and direction. Working directly with S3, Redshift, Spark, Databricks, Firehose, AWS RDS, and a number of other technologies under investigation.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Principal architect for HP PrintOS (https://printos.com) since its inception. HP PrintOS is a set of cloud services and applications for HP's Graphics Solutions Business customers and devices. HP PrintOS is a highly scalable and secure platform based on Amazon Web Services connecting HP's Graphics devices to the cloud.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Leading cloud strategy for a new software initiative. Oversight and direct involvement (architect also implements) in all technical aspects including technology stack, operations, security, and development process. Building significant team expertise in Javascript, Angular 1.4, Agile, Chef, Java, Spring DI, Spring JdbcTemplate, Tomcat, Splunk, New Relic, and MySQL. Using Jenkins extensively for continuous integration and delivery to test, staging, and production. Significant investigation in security aspects such as protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII), country-specific data privacy laws and Safe Harbor, and encryption. Leading organization-wide steering team for cloud initiatives. Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services infrastructure and platform offerings, including EC2, S3, ELB, and Route53. Leading the architecture for big data using Kafka, Hadoop, and the Confluent Platform.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Lead architect for HP Indigo's SmartStream Production Pro Digital Front End for Indigo Digital Presses. Responsible for end-to-end architecture and design. I continue to maintain responsibility for performance and networking as well. Primarily focused on future products.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

One of two software architects for the Digital Front End application for the HP Indigo Digital Press family. I am the lead architect responsible for end-to-end performance, the solution network design, and DFE system hardware selection.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Led technology strategy for unified Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Enterprise Solutions, with the goal of making integration of our portfolio of existing applications easier to integrate using web services. Created and interoperability-tested .NET (C#) and Java-based (Eclipse WTP/Axis) web services, including encryption and Basic Authentication.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

One of two architects that led system architecture and design of Imaging and Printing Management Console (IPMC) for a development team of 65 engineers. Led ES Expert Forum, a 20-person team of technical leads for IPMC product development.Led move of HP Web Jetadmin from legacy code base to Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio development; wrote partial implementation of Microsoft’s WS-Discovery specification in .NET.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Various positions at HP including HP-UX site system administration, Novell Netware (remember that?), firmware tools support, Software Configuration Management (SCM) lead for ClearCase, and mobile printing lead architect.

Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science