David Connolly
Director - Business Process Management & AI at BMO
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Connolly is an engineering leader with 15+ years of experience scaling teams from early-stage squads to 75+ engineers and driving platform transformations that grew ARR into the tens of millions. He blends hands-on technical work—recently contributing reliability fixes to the popular Sails.js framework around Redis-backed session handling—with strategic product and AI-led delivery as Director of BPM & AI at BMO and advisor on AI part-sourcing tooling. Known for aligning technical strategy to business outcomes, he has a track record of boosting deployment frequency 10x, halving cycle times, and building analytics and predictive models that informed go-to-market pivots. A practical systems thinker, he builds developer-focused foundations (CI/CD, DORA metrics, skills matrices) that measurably improve velocity and satisfaction. Outside of work he keeps sharp by flying airplanes, cycling, and experimenting with AI—bringing a pilot’s discipline and athlete’s drive to complex engineering transformations.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Software Engineering at Queen's University
English
Stackoverflow
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860reached
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Github Skills (7)
nodejs10
javascript10
sailsjs10
back-end-development10
redis10
emberjs6
ember-data6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
balderdashy/sails
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on modifying the session handling within the Sails.js framework, specifically related to Redis integration. Their contributions include adjusting log levels for Redis connection events and fixing function names. The user addressed a typo and incorporated a merge. The primary area of impact seems to be within the `lib/hooks/session/index.js` file. The work improves the reliability and monitoring of the session management.
realtimenode-jsjavascriptframeworknodejs
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