David Bell is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure at Amazon, AWS, and most recently Uber. He specializes in making complex backend systems reliable and maintainable so engineering teams can move faster without worrying about the plumbing. Progressing from SDE roles at Amazon into senior staff and principal positions at Uber, he brings deep production experience across cloud-native services and distributed systems. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic technical leader who blends hands-on coding with architecture and mentorship, and who prefers solving repeatable operational problems over flashy prototypes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Middlebury College
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