David Archer
Founding Engineer at BytesMatter
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Archer is a founding engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable web platforms and user-focused monitoring products from Edinburgh. He moved from web developer roles into principal engineering at Skyscanner, bringing deep expertise in performance, search, and data transformation to his startups BytesMatter and BuildBuddy UK. As a co-founder, he blends product intuition with full-stack execution—designing monitoring that prioritises the user perspective rather than synthetic signals. His background includes software architecture, intelligent search and clustering, and a track record of shipping reliable systems at scale. Colleagues would describe him as the pragmatic engineer who turns complex performance signals into actionable insights.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Rhodes University
Github Skills (16)
build-automation8
continuous-integration8
continuous-delivery7
build-pipelines7
docker7
git6
go6
cicd5
amazon-ec24
ui-composition4
opencomponents4
frontend3
nodejs3
microfrontend2
serverless2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
furybyname/yslownetsniff
Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 1 day
furybyname/drone-node-sass
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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