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Deprecated legacy code with Typescript Stack and Docker-Kubernetes deployment for 25% reduction in complexity
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
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Ideation → Iteration → Innovation
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Greater Pittsburgh Region, United States, United States
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Dave Watson previously worked as Technologist at Wyvern Ltd and Freelance at Freelance. Dave Watson holds Bachelor Of Science - Bs from Duquesne University.
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About Dave Watson
Ideas are imaginary. Sketches are symbolic. Releases are real.Build ideas. Measure iteration. Learn innovation.Software is a dynamic, co-op learning game evoking empathy from conflict to consensus and team to tech. I've worked in teams poles and roles apart, literally and figuratively. My most productive work was tiny pizza teams sharing quantum leaps across a liminal spectrum.From idea to code and test to distro, those leaps come from the best human AND human-computer sensemaking pairs - two guys in a garage peeking and poking to big tech scaling server farms.Leaps that we may share in nimble pairs realizing empathy together from human to machine. Messy, dirty work that's not simple, but scales with support. We just need patience as the inflection point shadows a pregnant pause in tech and culture.Why?Peer Paring scales from school to server farm.My R & D interests are emergent languages like rust, leading the way with complete end-to-end toolchains for development from scaffolding to shipping, ideas beyond Information Centricity I learned at MAYA Design, and scaling HCI metaphors from tiling to zooming wormholes I learned at CMU, and everything in-between. There's an emergent lesson there in software design and architecture from Kay to Gosling to van Rossum and beyond.I'm also curious about modern takes on where Literate Programming (Knuth) might meet human-computer sensemaking approaches (Pirolli) in AI. I've thought about the keyhole problem (Meyers) to the lossy design style accompanying the arc of clouds over AWS for two decades now, where a link may be a wormhole if and only if it's manifested in HCI at scale, just like APIs. Sadly, that way-of-building systems is lost in the metadata before it reaches it's natural resting place: in documentation!With hope, the work may be optimized to improve agency, meaning, and Development Experience: Software as the cooperative learning game that it always has been!
15 roles · 23 years
Dave Watson work experience
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Freelance
Freelance
Prototyped Personal Knowledge Management concept around GPT and Requests, experimented with data in Rust/Polars, and LaTeX
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Build Engineer
Built Xilinx ZCU-104 PYNQ code from port of Terrain Visualization code on Intel using C++ GCC Linux by toggling FPGA feature flags in GCC without computational complexity analysis or optimization to gain 20%-50% time optimization for deployment on CAT grader
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Senior Member Of Technical Staff
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), High Performance Computing (HPC)
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Software Engineering Specialist
Assembled Sensor Storage for Edge Network on Kubernetes to achieve Dev-Prod Parity using S3 as protocol not product, like MinioCollaborated with 12 IT execs on planning and implications of hyperconverged infrastructure, cloud native storageTested prototypes related to Git for Data (like Pachyderm or LakeFS) with partner in Golang, optimizing space for 5.
Oct 2018 - Jan 2020
Senior Software Developer
Led weekly retro resulting in better communication, velocity, and teamwork via nimble methods like affinity diagrams and pairs workCrafted Scrapy crawler over Tor (python 3) to cover real estate frontier without detection on Django, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes
2016 - 2018
~2 yrs
Vp Product Development
Built data analysis and tools from experiments in pandas and Python.Deprecated legacy App Store dependency using browser-based Ember SPA MVP designed and delivered in concert with MAYA DesignDeveloped API backend on Python 3 - Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL emitting JSON API to Ember SPA on Aptible
2015 - 2016
~1 yr
Vp Of Engineering
ed a team of 6 through a lean Python 3 redesign and refactoring of the entire UI/UX from legacy MVP Django systemReduced daily production firefighting by using nimble methods, automated tests, CI/CD, code review and design review
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Senior Software Developer
Prototyped full-stack (Bootstrap to Heroku) on Proxmox-Gitlab quickly on Python 3 before porting MVP from Python to Ruby on RailsEnabled the company to capture strong market traction in just a year after releasing 1.0 e-commerce platform finished at Neo
2013 - 2014
~1 yr
Senior Engineer
Smash Technologies
Wrote conversational text systems (like twilio) in Python, PostgreSQL, Flask, and Requests on Fedora LinuxSupported large SMS text campaigns from Pittsburgh Steelers to Miller-Coors
2011 - 2012
~1 yr
Software Development Manager
Responsible for Sophia and Flintbox product development, deployment, and supportLed team of 12 from slow legacy data center of more than 1M SLOC to fast, automated SaaS virtualization of CI/CD, DevOps, and SREPrototyped systems using Capistrano (Ruby), Mechanize (Python), and Selenium with team of 4-7 software engineers
2010 - 2011
~1 yr
Project Engineer
Visualized XML sonar data in Python Beautiful Soup server and Microsoft Visual C++ GUI client on Windows for UUV deploymentsPorted Microsoft C# Windows GUI application to C++, Qt, Ubuntu Linux for OCU deployment of Talon Robot in EOD applications
2008 - 2009
~1 yr
Ui Software Engineer
Coded C++ QA tests, maintained Perl code review system, CORVUS FDA-regulated product, team of 12, ~2M SLOC MacPrototyped wireframes and rendered storyboards in C++/PyQt for adaptive 4D treatment planning with team of 4
Jul 2006 - Nov 2007
Software Design Engineer
Deployed python web services emitting JSON to JDA clients on team of 4 developing A+ Schools, 3RC, DHS to win an awardDemoed GUI lighting IoT Zigbee PoC in C#.net/COM/Visio on Windows for Phillips execs in 5 days sketch-to-codeCobind
2004 - 2006
~2 yrs
Co-Founder
Cobind
We borrowed cobind from DNA signifyingcooperative binding - app/os tightly bound at build-time vs. loosely bound at run-timeCollaborated on Linux Tools startup with cofounder and consultant. Received worldwide press acclaim after Idea Foundry FellowshipProgeny, Suse, RPath, and Timesys built linux online but few used browser as UI/UX then. Nowspins are in.
2003 - 2004
~1 yr
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Dave Watson education
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Duquesne University
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