Dave Cunningham
Vice President AI Scientist at Fidelity Investments
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Cunningham is a Vice President AI Scientist with 17 years of experience bridging deep research and production systems, currently driving AI work at Fidelity after long-tenured engineering roles at Google and research at IBM. He holds a PhD in programming languages from Imperial College London and excels at turning hard technical problems into practical, user-focused solutions. A hands-on contributor to major open-source infrastructure projects like Terraform and Helm, he has improved core data handling and provider integrations that affect large-scale cloud deployments. Dave thrives in innovation-driven teams and deliberately moves from academia toward roles that put him closer to end users and customers to better shape impactful products. An understated strength is his ability to work across low-level interpreter details up to cloud provider integrations, making him comfortable in both research and production engineering contexts.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Programming languages, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Programming languages at Imperial College London
Github Skills (45)
kubernetes10
google-cloud-platform10
strings10
cloud-manager10
testing10
charts10
c-string10
cloud-infrastructure10
schema-design10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
gcp10
terraformer10
go10
manage10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
google/jsonnet
Aug 2014 - Oct 2022
Jsonnet - The data templating language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 28 reviews, 898 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dave's contributions primarily revolved around implementing features related to building a web application backend using a data templating language, Jsonnet. They focused on modifying the existing codebase by adding a Google Analytics tracking script, fixing HTML validation errors across multiple documentation files and modifying code styles. They also demonstrated familiarity with various elements of software deployment, through work in building the site and documentation.
configurationtemplatingscalaconfigtemplating-language
google/go-jsonnet
Mar 2016 - Oct 2022
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 15 reviews, 80 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on improving the Jsonnet interpreter, working on low-level internal details like data structures, evaluation logic, and string handling. Their commits introduced enhancements to the interpreter's core functionality, including the handling of JSON parsing, bitwise operations, and improvements to the string unparsing mechanism, as well as core functions. The user addressed comments and made refactors to support the overall Jsonnet interpreter's functionality.
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