D Slaton
CEO at Stillriver Solutions
McDonough, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolD Slaton is a technology leader and founder with 11 years of engineering and architecture experience who now runs Stillriver Solutions, helping organizations adopt AI by translating strategy into implementable tooling and workflows. He has led architecture teams across major media brands including Warner Bros. Discovery and Bleacher Report, designing multi-tenant sports platforms, implementing GraphQL, and scaling big data pipelines for high-traffic digital properties. Known for turning complex systems into practical, teachable patterns, he trains teams on the core principles of AI—model, context, prompt, and tools—so adoption is sustainable not just experimental. His background spans hands-on development (from CNN’s responsive redesign and election apps to search engine integration) to executive leadership, blending product-minded engineering with business acumen. Based in McDonough, Georgia, he combines formal training in software engineering and marketing to bridge technical strategy and stakeholder outcomes. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who builds businesses and developer capability, not just theories.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Software Engineering, MS, Software Engineering at Southern Polytechnic State UniversityComputer Information Systems, Oracle DB Admin, Computer Information Systems, Oracle DB Admin at Dekalb Technical CollegePebblebrookBS, Marketing, BS, Marketing at Lehigh University
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Github Skills (52)
jquery8
health8
graphql-query8
constructor8
login-system7
google-news7
responsive7
hapi7
logger7
api7
yeoman6
xml6
logging6
auth-service6
nodejs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cnnlabs/amp-validator
Sep 2017 - Feb 2021
A command-line validator for AMP Project. It fires the the built-in validator (the one that outputs in the browser console) and gives you the results on the command line. This is designed for validation as part of a test suite among other things.
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 5 months
browservalidationconsolefiresoutputs
cnnlabs/cnn-cipher
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
A client side graphql query constructor.
Contributions:4 releases, 16 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
queryclient-sideconstructorgraphql-querygraphql
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