Dave Cowart
Staff Software Engineer at TrueTake
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolDave Cowart is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and leading product-focused engineering teams across startups and digital agencies. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, he has progressed from hands-on web development to senior and staff roles at companies like NTWRK, Ghost, and now TrueTake, blending architecture, cloud-driven solutions, and product strategy. He co-founded and ran Two Ravens, a venture studio, where he paired R&D rigor with empathetic, research-based product design—an indicator of his product-first engineering mindset. Dave is skilled at mentoring engineers, setting development standards, and translating client needs into scalable technical solutions. Comfortable across stacks and AWS-centric architectures, he brings both execution speed and an eye for improving processes. Beyond coding, he’s known for turning ambiguous business problems into pragmatic engineering roadmaps that accelerate time-to-value.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems, General at Auburn University
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
791reputation
79kreached
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Github Skills (57)
agora9
micro-orm8
uploader7
threshold7
file-upload7
dapper-extensions7
rtc7
cli7
csv7
html6
crud6
react6
nodejs6
excel6
sdk6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
davecowart/dotfiles
Feb 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
davecowart/zsh-plugins
Jan 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 2 years
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