Software, Cloud, and Data Services

Hello, my name is David and I’m here to help improve your product, business and insights.

With many years of data and software experience in management, engineering and product roles, I work seamlessly with leaders to strengthen their product, processes and planning. My unique background and skillset allows me to work fluidly through the many layers of strategy, requirements, architecture and coding to ensure the deliverable is in full alignment with their needs.

Contact

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Available Services

Virtual CTO/CIO

Making the proper strategic choices with your product or data solutions, technical team growth, and product delivery is essential for any business. Hiring a full-time CTO or CIO to own these responsibilities has its advantages but the cost and difficulty of finding and retaining this person can seem out of reach to small and early-stage companies. A Virtual CTO or CIO allows your company to reap the benefits of technical and data strategy to ensure your companies success on-demand at a fraction of the cost. I can work directly with your executive and technology teams to make sure goals are defined, measurable and executed properly.

Does your organization have big questions it wishes it could answer with the help of data and insights? As a full-stack data scientist, analyst, architect and engineer, I can help clean up your data, scale your data architecture and unlock valuable insights using business intelligence or machine-learning techniques at a reasonable cost.

Fractional Architect

Data and Analytics

Whether you are planning on launching a new product or improving an existing solution, a sound architecture is essential. Startups launching their first product need to deliver value quickly to gain customers and revenue, while proven products need to evolve for changing requirements, increased scale, improved security and lower operating costs. One single approach will not work for all cases. I can work with your product team to define the recommended software, cloud and data architecture needed for a first launch or anticipated scale out to either build myself or share the blueprints to an internal or external team.

Build and Lead

Strategy and architecture do not achieve results on their own. Solutions need to be built within this framework at the highest quality within budget in a timely manner to be successful. I can build out the solution myself or alongside your team as the project lead, ensuring it is delivered as expected with proper testing, documentation, best coding practices, error handling and monitoring while passing on this knowledge and expertise to the team.

Highlighted Past Projects

Reclaim Health

  • Architected and built a highly scalable and secure SaaS platform and data pipelines with real-time machine-learning inferences for a healthcare recommendations and medical bills analysis company

  • Served as the company’s first CTO and later served as a Virtual CTO

  • Exploratory analysis and feature engineering to generate valuable health features from health care claims files and modeled supervised and unsupervised algorithms to generate insights on healthcare needs and cost-saving.

  • Created an efficient development lifecycle and product delivery process

Crystal W Design

SRAM

  • Led the world’s leading bicycle components company’s data and analytics team to complete a major data platform migration project to modernize their solution to use Databricks and Spark to improve the performance of their reporting and increase the scale of processing dense telemetry data

  • Optimized PySpark code to improve data pipeline performance and delivered business intelligence reports

  • Mentored team members and provided guidance on strategy and hiring to the management team

  • Partnered with a leading textile design company to define and execute a data-driven strategy, converting disjoint e-commerce sales and engagement data into actionable insights by creating automated data pipelines, analysis, and business intelligence dashboards to identify trends and customer segments to improve product development and sales.

Evidation Health

  • Created a large scale data platform responsible for ingesting, cleaning and analyzing petabytes of digital biometric data securely for clinical trials and other big data projects at a successful health insights company using AWS and Apache Spark

  • Hired and scaled up two engineering teams

Get in Touch

Want to learn more? Schedule a free 15-minute discussion to see where I can help!