David Atkins
Engineering Manager at EF
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
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Top SchoolDavid Atkins is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building scalable web platforms and leading teams, currently based in Hangzhou. He has progressed through senior engineering and tech lead roles at EF Education First, where he shipped an online language school to 100k+ users, led China market expansion, and now drives AI-driven educational initiatives. Technically versatile, he spans frontend frameworks (Angular, Vue, React) and backend services in Golang, NodeJS, and Java while owning infrastructure work with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform. As a founder of a tooling startup, he learned product marketing and go-to-market fundamentals in addition to hands-on engineering. His interests in crypto, decentralized apps, functional programming and game development reflect a broad theoretical curiosity that informs pragmatic system design. Collected Cambridge Computer Science training underpins his mix of academic rigor and product-focused delivery.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of CambridgeComputing, Mathematics and Physics, Computing, Mathematics and Physics at Lawrence Sheriff School
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
95reputation
8kreached
3answers
9questions
Github Skills (98)
middleware9
client-library9
github-api9
terraform9
ruby-client9
node-client9
terraform-provider9
digest-authentication9
ecmascript8
api8
javascript8
forwarding8
rest-client8
port-forwarding8
linter8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DazKins/Triad
Jun 2013 - May 2018
Contributions:165 commits, 31 pushes in 4 years 11 months
DazKins/LudumDare
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:73 commits in 1 month
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