Summary
Dave Dwight is a senior fullstack software engineer with nine years of experience building product-first systems across commodities trading, sports, payments, trucking, digital health, and financial compliance. He combines hands-on engineering with ops and go-to-market leadership—co-founding a YC-backed commodities exchange in Ghana and later leading operations and product launches for a wearable-driven digital health startup. Technically fluent in cloud-native AWS services, TypeScript, Python, and scalable data pipelines, he has a track record of cutting latency and improving reliability in production systems. Comfortable shipping both front-end experiences and backend ETL/real-time scoring services, he has also driven migrations that reduced API response times from 45s to under 3s. Based in Denver, he brings entrepreneurial grit, cross-cultural experience, and a practical focus on building products that measurably improve people’s lives.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Fullstack JavaScript development, algorithms & data structures, Fullstack JavaScript development, algorithms & data structures at BloomTech
Spanish, International Entrepreneurship, Spanish, International Entrepreneurship at Universidad de Montevideo
Bachelor's degree, Economics & Global Studies, Bachelor's degree, Economics & Global Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Spanish