David Cameron
Staff Software Engineer at Freshpaint
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Cameron is a Staff Software Engineer and security-minded data practitioner with 20 years of experience building resilient systems across fraud and abuse prevention, data platforms, and backend services. He blends hands-on engineering in Python, Go, Java and Scala with product and operational ownership—moving ad-hoc transformations into dbt, improving alerting via structured logs, and running fraud playbooks that balance growth and risk. At DigitalOcean he led Security Observability and Behavioral Analytics work, standardizing processes and translating security metrics into company-wide, document-driven reviews. An active open-source contributor, he has improved metadata and ingestion tooling for Amundsen and helped maintain API clients and CI tooling, demonstrating attention to secure integrations like mTLS and resource management. Based in New York, he combines a cognitive-systems background with practical experience in mobile, asynchronous backends, and hardware integration to solve performance and availability challenges.
20 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Cognitive Systems, BSc, Cognitive Systems at The University of British Columbia
French, English
Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
python10
apidoc10
data-engineering10
testing10
graph-database10
netframework10
neo4j10
go10
api10
sqlalchemy10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
xslt9
json9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
netbox-community/go-netbox
Jun 2017 - Nov 2019
The official Go API client for Netbox IPAM and DCIM service.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 10 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the official Go API client for Netbox, focusing on the Tenancy implementation by addressing typos, ensuring consistent comments for code generation, and streamlining tests. The user introduced the InventoryItems feature, enabling querying from DCIM. Additionally, the user made several updates to the client to support new functionalities and configurations.
go-apinetboxgonetbox-api
ccnet/CruiseControl.NET
Mar 2006 - Nov 2009
CruiseControl.NET is an Automated Continuous Integration server, implemented using the .NET Framework. Downloads at sourceforge. The documentation can be found at:
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:86 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the CruiseControl.NET codebase, addressing issues related to testing and exception handling within the CCTray component. They also implemented features such as the ability to support authentication within the EmailPublisher and improve the handling of HTTP transport issues. The changes involved modifications to core components, testing modules and XSL files, indicating expertise in the underlying architecture and various subsystems within the project.
continuous-integrationcruisecontroldotnetsourceforge
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