David Bayless
Senior Software Engineer at QXO
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Bayless is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with a decade of experience building full-stack systems across startups and large cloud providers. He has shipped production software at AWS and led engineering efforts at Skyward and QXO, blending pragmatic engineering with a people-first approach that emphasizes semantic naming, clear communication, and mentoring. Comfortable across the stack, David moves quickly from concept to delivery and thrives in collaborative teams where he can both teach and learn. His background as a former full-stack instructor and long-time manager informs a thoughtful developer-first mindset uncommon in engineers who focus solely on code. Outside work he brings creative problem-solving from music, gaming, and amateur philosophy into product design and team culture.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Cello Pedagogy Certificate, Cello Pedagogy, Cello Pedagogy Certificate, Cello Pedagogy at Colorado State UniversityGalvanize - Fort Collins, Old Town
English
Github Skills (1)
testing5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DavidBayless/Cat-tastrophe
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
lukevance/lifeGameBackend
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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