David Drake Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Los Angeles, US

• Lead a team of full-stack developers to deliver roadmap projects and ensure technical excellence.
• Break down product requirements and technical designs into actionable tasks and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Balance hands-on coding with strategic technical guidance through code reviews, technical design evaluations, and troubleshooting.
• Adapt and refine technical plans to align with evolving business objectives and maintain transparency across teams.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to provide detailed insights on resource needs and technical feasibility.
• Own technical design to ensure scalability, alignment with product goals, and minimal technical debt.

Venice, California, US

· Managed cross-functional, international and domestic teams of up to 15 engineers, overseeing the development of a large-scale supply chain software built on a robust Go back end with an Angular / TypeScript front end utilizing MySQL and NoSQL storage.· Enhanced project delivery timelines with Agile methodologies, leading to a 60% increase in on-time.

San Francisco, CA, US

· Worked on engineering and DevOps infrastructure responsible for moving millions of dollars on a daily basis.· Helped with defining and documenting the hiring process used across the company and was responsible for assisting in key hires that led to massive changes in the technology.· Secured receipts, the most valuable assets of the company, across 6.

· Managed a multidisciplinary team of 17 employees across various departments such as HR, sales, engineering, and accounting in a dynamic startup setting.· Developed a robust software platform using PHP (Laravel) with MySQL and Apache, with heavy redis caching on Ubuntu. Achieved a peak traffic of 10,000,000 hits per month on a single server, serving 10s.

San Francisco, California, US

· Directed technology initiatives for a team of 25 and over 400 technicians nationwide, spearheading the creation and implementation of a pioneering dispatching system. This system revolutionized the visibility and deployment efficiency of technicians globally.· Implemented robust communication protocols, security measures, and productivity tools resulting.

Sandwich, MA, US

· Designed and oversaw the development of critical systems and applications utilized by a team of programmers and internal stakeholders.· Saved organization thousands of hours by architecting, designing, and implementing an exception engine for the ETL pipelines that would run allowing for a 30% increase in successful billing.· Engineered the external.

US

· Architected the back end for deploying Grupthink instances orchestrated via manual Ubuntu Linux commands on old VPS virtualization platforms including PostgreSQL databases, PHP installations, STOMP, ActiveMQ, memcached, and customized DNS and hosting.· Implemented and oversaw a comprehensive internal development Wiki, increasing team knowledge sharing.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Theater

Associate Of Applied Science, Software Application Development