Summary
Dave Sullivan is a founder and full-stack web developer with 13 years of experience building web applications and applying machine learning to product problems from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has founded and led multiple startups—including Cadence Software Labs and Blackcloud BSG—and served as co-founder and CEO at Ersatz Labs, demonstrating repeated entrepreneurial execution. Equally comfortable in front-end and back-end development, he blends practical engineering with ML-driven features to move products from prototype to production. His background suggests a bias for building lean, founder-operated engineering teams and shipping customer-facing systems end-to-end. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs hands-on coding with strategic product thinking, making him a pragmatic technical leader for early-stage ventures.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at University of California, Santa Barbara