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David Underwood
From Canada
11:23 AM
(GMT-04:00)
$150,000/yr
Active over a week ago
Lead Developer
Back-end Engineer
Available for hire
Years of
experience
15+ years
Experience
level
Staff
Available
for
Full-time
I am a full stack web developer with 16 years of experience in the industry. Half of those have been in a technical leadership role.
I do my best work when helping others do their best work. That can mean developing internal tools for other developers and building CI/CD pipelines. It can mean mentoring developers and holding their work to a high standard. It definitely means making sure that the features and products I build are the best they can be and make the work of those that use them easier.
Skills
Languages
Employment History
Lead software developer + DevOps at
Micrometrics
2017
-
2026
Leading all aspects of development and infrastructure at a small company (<15 people).
• Development of new product functionality.
• Managing a small team of 1-3 other developers.
• Sole responsibility for deployment and management of Saas web infrastructure including databases,
virtual private clouds, Cloud servers, etc. using tools including Terraform and Ansible.
• Automating CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintenance and management of large Ruby on Rails codebases.
• Involvement in long-term planning with company executives.
Development Team Lead at
Younility
2016
-
2017
Managagement of a small team of developers as well as being an individual contributor to a SaaS webapp written in Ruby on Rails. The application had its own web interface as well as an API that supported a mobile application. We were responsible for everything from the infrastructure up. Technology/tools included AWS Cloud servers, push notifications via SNS, and rolling deployments with Terraform.
Management responsibilities included being a contact point for the product team, clearing development roadblocks day-to-day, as well as longer term team goals and individual advancement.
Backend and Search Developer at
TripAdvisor
2014
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2016
Working on a small satellite team responsible for developing and maintaining the search functionality for TripAdvisor. This involved the web services in Java as well as the underlying search infrastructure that was based on Elasticsearch. Development tasks included webapp features as well as search performance and tuning on large datasets.
Developer Advocate at
Shopify
2011
-
2013
As developer advocate I was responsible for outreach and support for developers using the public Shopify APIs. We were also responsible for taking feedback and being a voice for those developers within the company.
Software Developer at
Apption
2009
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2011
Worked on a development team across various contracts for third parties. Mostly webapp work with a small amount of data management/ETL too.
Software Developer at
Macadamian
2008
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2009
Webapp work on several client projects. Java, Flash, Actionscript.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science with Honours at
Carleton University
2004
-
2008