Summary
David Bodow is a Director of Engineering based in Berkeley with eight years of hands-on experience in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem, specializing in backend systems, cloud infrastructure, OLAP data pipelines, and databases. He leads platform and security teams to deliver cost-efficient, maintainable solutions—recently focusing on ClickHouse OLAP architecture, AWS cost optimization, and data egress strategies including Snowflake and APIs. David excels at translating stakeholder visions into technical roadmaps, driving SOC 2 compliance, and smoothing large-scale integrations after M&A. His background as an educational leader and strategy consultant gives him uncommon strengths in team-building, cross-functional communication, and aligning engineering autonomy with business outcomes. He has a track record of pragmatic savings and reliability improvements—having re-architected ETL and provisioning to materially reduce costs—and enjoys solving the operational challenges that follow rapid growth.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at University of Chicago
Full Stack Development, Full Stack Development at App Academy