Dave Lewis
Head Of Engineering at Mobot
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Lewis is an experienced engineering leader with nine years in senior roles and a 20+ year technical pedigree, currently serving as Head of Engineering in Charlottesville where he scaled product development through a 3x team growth after Series A. He brings a rare blend of hands-on full-stack contributions—such as notable OSS fixes to the gqless GraphQL client including enum, nullable, and refetch support—and strategic leadership building cross-functional programs, launching Mobot Live, and seeding AI initiatives in computer vision and LLMs. Dave has repeatedly led multinational teams and transformational product launches from Seed to public delivery, while also running executive planning and manager-alignment forums to strengthen operations and career growth. Comfortable shifting between code-level problem solving and executive decision-making, he pairs a Cognitive Science background with pragmatic software delivery and a history of shipping scalable systems across startups and enterprise environments.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
None Cognitive Science, None Cognitive Science at Brown UniversityBA Cognitive Science, BA Cognitive Science at Swarthmore College
Github Skills (7)
graphql10
typescript10
typescripts10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
react10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
samdenty/gqless
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
a GraphQL client without queries
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the GraphQL client, 'gqless', by addressing core features and resolving issues. Their contributions include adding support for undefined types, fixing nullable queries, and implementing enum support. Furthermore, the user made changes to the example hackernews application, generating types to reflect the changes made. Also, they added refetch support to the resolved function.
graphql-clientreactgqlessgraphql-toolsnodejs
widgetbot-io/Zenith
Nov 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:82 commits in 5 months
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