David Blewett
Senior Engineer II at CrowdStrike
Westfield, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Blewett is a Senior Engineer with 16 years of experience building resilient, cost-effective systems that amplify team effectiveness across security, observability, and data platforms. He specializes in distributed systems, SQL, Python, and Rust, and has repeatedly taken hard problems to production—from bootstrapping microservice architectures that index 60+ TB/day to shaping the next-generation time-series database at Datadog. David pairs systems-level performance tuning (async multi-process Python, Rust DFAs) with pragmatic automation work—like accelerating full-data backfills from weeks to days—so teams without deep engineering resources can still operate at scale. He contributes to open-source tooling (notably extending python-soundfile for virtual I/O) and brings a background in operational analytics and security that informs robust, observable designs. Based in Westfield, Indiana, he’s equally comfortable tracking down elusive bugs as he is designing architectures that prevent them.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Diploma, Honors Diploma at Chesterton High SchoolBachelor of Arts Criminal Justice Criminology Spanish, Bachelor of Arts Criminal Justice Criminology Spanish at Ball State University
English
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Github Skills (7)
python10
cffi10
libsndfile10
audio-processing9
vim6
lxml6
numpy5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bastibe/python-soundfile
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
SoundFile is an audio library based on libsndfile, CFFI, and NumPy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:David focused on enhancing the `python-soundfile` library, specifically adding support for the `libsndfile`'s virtual file interface. They implemented the necessary callbacks and refactored the code to handle file-like objects, enabling the library to work with data streams and virtual I/O operations. Key contributions involved adapting the library's core functionality to integrate with libsndfile's virtual interface, including implementing methods to handle file length, seek, read, write, and tell operations. These changes expanded the library's capabilities for audio file handling.
audiocffilibsndfilenumpy
CrowdStrike/cs.eyrie
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:14 PRs, 124 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 9 months
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