Summary
Dave Haworth is a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer based in Madison, Wisconsin with 11 years of experience building and architecting cloud-native, reliable systems across product and enterprise contexts. He has progressed from application developer to senior cloud architect and solutions architect roles, now blending hands-on engineering with customer-facing deployment and strategy at dbt Labs. Dave has a strong background in software reliability and enterprise systems architecture, helping organizations translate complex requirements into resilient production services. His trajectory shows deep operational empathy and an ability to move between long-term platform thinking and immediate, deliverable solutions—skills honed over a decade-plus of evolving roles at Widen, BreakFree Solutions, and dbt Labs.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Lakeland College