David Carson
Backend Lead at Crank | AMETEK
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Carson is a Backend Lead with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping robust server-side systems across automotive, multimedia, and embedded platforms. Based in Ottawa, he blends deep technical execution—from low-level platform work at QNX to functional safety at Ford—with leadership of backend teams at Crank | AMETEK. His portfolio shows curiosity-driven side projects (patient-management, API mashups, and mobile tooling) that reflect a habit of prototyping end-to-end solutions and documenting design decisions. Comfortable navigating hardware-adjacent stacks and production services alike, he brings pragmatic problem solving and a preference for learning new technologies on the job.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Carleton UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
svershin/ProcDroid
Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 2 months
svershin/cuCare
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:39 commits in 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.