Dave Voutila
Principal Product Manager - Azure AI Foundry at Sisu Integrated Services, LLC
Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolDave Voutila is a seasoned solutions and product leader with ~20 years of experience aligning product-market fit by working directly with customers, engineers, and product owners. He blends hands-on engineering (kernel and backend contributions to projects like OpenBSD, Redpanda, and CourtListener) with customer-facing skills honed as a sales engineer and manager across startups and enterprise vendors. Currently a Principal Product Manager on Microsoft Foundry's Model Customization team, he has driven fine-tuning scale and architectural optimizations to deliver 10x token capacity without raising GPU costs. As an entrepreneur running Sisu Integrated Services, he prototypes MVPs and end-to-end deployments that balance technical rigor with business impact. Comfortable presenting to C‑level execs by day and committing low-level OS fixes by night, he describes himself as “M-shaped,” with multiple deep skill areas from kernel internals to go-to-market strategy. Based in Vermont, he’s an active open-source contributor with a pragmatic focus on shipping solutions that solve real customer problems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematical Sciences, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (37)
e-government10
alex10
container10
assembly10
blueprint10
docker10
python10
c1110
dockers10
flask-ask10
c1710
legaltech10
kernel10
go10
kernel-mode10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
johnwheeler/flask-ask
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Alexa Skills Kit for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Flask-Ask project, focusing on implementing support for Flask blueprints. They added features to locate and utilize the Ask instance within blueprints and implemented session-ended request handling. Furthermore, the user made several code cleanup commits, including removing commented-out code and fixing issues with YAML templates in the context of blueprints. These modifications enhanced the flexibility and functionality of the Alexa skill development framework.
alexa-skills-kitpythonflaskechopython3
freelawproject/courtlistener
Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
A fully-searchable and accessible archive of court data including growing repositories of opinions, oral arguments, judges, judicial financial records, and federal filings.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:127 commits, 19 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to back-end aspects of the project, specifically within the context of managing and scraping court data. Their work involved modifying command-line tools to scrape opinions and updating settings. Additionally, the user merged branches and made changes to settings files, indicating involvement in both development and potentially configuration management. The user also showed some knowledge of front-end as they also made a minor change in the project's front-end code (javascript typeahead file).
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