Dave Bell
Head Of Engineering at Labbit
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Bell is a seasoned engineering leader with over 25 years of hands-on experience and more than a decade in senior technology roles, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Labbit in Victoria, BC. He has a proven track record scaling product-led teams and delivering complex systems—from lab informatics and IoT platforms to high-throughput finance and royalty processing—driving significant revenue growth and profitable exits. Comfortable toggling between product strategy, architecture and firmware, Dave blends embedded systems depth (C, RTOS, device SDKs) with cloud-native backend and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS). He is a pragmatic advocate of simplicity and agile practices, known for hiring and mentoring strong teams and fostering cross-functional collaboration with sales and implementation. Notably, his background includes co-founding startups and shipping both consumer-facing platforms and mission-critical medical and industrial embedded systems, reflecting unusual breadth across hardware-software stacks.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc(Eng), Engineering Systems & Computing, Bsc(Eng), Engineering Systems & Computing at University of Guelph
Github Skills (26)
mls9
hotel-booking9
plug7
ruby-on-rails7
spree7
swift6
guardian6
rails6
ruby6
objective-c6
hex6
ios6
admin6
cocoapods5
macos5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TelmedIQ/dave-test
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
jiratest-repotransitions
SemaphoreSolutions/good-dogs-ui-old
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
A react skeleton used during our interview process.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 branches in 9 days
reactreact-skeletoninterview-processskeleton
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