Dave Sims
Principal at CoPoint AI
Denton, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Sims is a Principal software engineer and leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing backend systems, architecting applications, and scaling engineering teams across startups and larger companies. He has led technical transformations—from migrating operations to hosted platforms and restructuring auth systems at GitHub to building flight and ground software for satellites as CTO at Kubos—while remaining a committed practitioner in Ruby, Python, Rust, JavaScript and more. Dave excels at turning greenfield projects into reliable products (e.g., Major Tom ground control and a complete project-management rewrite) and at doubling teams through hiring and process improvements. He combines enthusiasm for clean code with a people-first approach, cultivating productive, passionate engineering cultures that outlast any single release. Based in Denton, Texas, he also brings an uncommon mix of technical breadth and editorial experience from years as a freelance writer, which informs clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
15 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at University of North TexasComputer Science, Computer Science at LeTourneau University
Stackoverflow
5,109reputation
654kreached
95answers
5questions
java
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (51)
ldap-client10
satellite10
java9
ruby-on-rails9
ldap7
activerecord6
manjaro6
rxtx6
overriding6
canopen6
usb6
inheritance6
ruby6
oop6
unit-testing6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
davesims/yatzy_refactoring
Aug 2015 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 8 years 2 months
davesims/dotfiles
Apr 2011 - Aug 2022
Contributions:120 commits, 29 pushes in 11 years 5 months
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