Summary
Dave Sullivan is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 11 years of experience scaling web products and engineering teams, currently leading HoodQ’s national expansion from a single-market product to multiple offerings across Canada. He specializes in cloud migrations and cost optimization—most notably cutting infrastructure spend by 70% through containerization and AWS adoption—while building and managing fully remote, globally distributed teams. As founder of Redified Solutions he consults with startups to remove technical roadblocks, accelerate MVP delivery, and improve developer productivity via targeted process and tooling changes. His hands-on background spans full-stack development and DevOps (Django, Rails, Docker, Ansible, Heroku, AWS) and includes coaching roles and technical instruction, reflecting a talent for translating business needs into pragmatic engineering choices. Based in Toronto and working as a digital nomad, he prefers fully remote opportunities and brings a mix of strategic leadership and day-to-day engineering craft.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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