Dave Symons
Technical Lead at Solace
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Symons is a Technical Lead with 17 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver highly available, cost-efficient cloud systems and consumer applications. He has driven large-scale rearchitectures—most notably TripIt’s migration to AWS and a microservices framework that supported millions of users and 26,000 RPM—while cutting operational costs and boosting reliability. At Atana he led AI initiatives and designed RAG-ready ETL and vector DB architectures (Redis, OpenSearch) using AWS Bedrock to automate workflows and surface clearer customer insights. Comfortable toggling between hands-on engineering and technical leadership, he prioritizes strong engineering culture, observability, and measurable business outcomes. Based in Redmond, WA, he also brings practical experience in developer tooling and DevOps practices that empower teams to own deployment and incident processes.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Arts and Sciences Degree, Associate in Arts and Sciences Degree at Bellevue CollegeIntensive Japanese language study, Intensive Japanese language study at KCP International (Japan)Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Western Washington University
Github Skills (16)
pygame7
forum7
api-documentation7
api7
nes6
python4
cli2
aws2
marshmallow2
binding2
okta2
objective-c1
c-language1
boto1
aws-cli1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aosyborg/Aospace
Jun 2009 - Jun 2014
Contributions:26 commits in 5 years 1 month
aosyborg/aosyborg.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 4 months
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