Dave Koston
Chief Technology Officer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Koston is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Austin, Texas, with 11 years of experience guiding high-growth startups and building resilient, distributed applications. He specializes in high availability, internet infrastructure, fintech, and web hosting, translating business strategy into scalable engineering roadmaps. Known for assembling and mentoring strong software teams, he blends Agile practices with hands-on systems design across the full software development lifecycle. At Rocket.net he pairs product-minded engineering with operational rigor to deliver performant web platforms. His background in English gives him an uncommon strength in clear technical communication and intellectual property considerations. He brings a pragmatic balance of UX sensitivity and deep infrastructure expertise to complex, customer-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
BA, English, BA, English at University of Delaware
Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
specification10
cpp10
openapi10
acid10
api10
embeddable10
api-server10
api-client10
bigtable10
embedded10
rest-api10
foundationdb10
key-value-store10
mysql10
distributed-database10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dkoston/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 11 months
dkoston/xlsx2csv
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Convert XSLX files to CSV
Contributions:21 PRs, 39 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 10 months
xslxcsvxlsxcsv-readercsv-parser
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