David Dexter
Engineering At Riot at Riot Games
Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Dexter is an outcome-driven engineering leader with over 14 years of hands-on experience and more than 20 years of industry influence building teams and scalable software across gaming, media, and consumer startups. Currently at Riot Games, he has a track record of restructuring organizations, introducing feature-flagged phased releases, and institutionalizing job families and career frameworks to boost velocity and retention. He blends product-minded delivery with architecture expertise—leading migrations to AWS, modernizing legacy ESB patterns to decentralized services, and driving CI/CD and observability adoption. Known for pragmatic change management, he’s led acquisitions, infrastructure migrations, and cost-reduction efforts by eliminating redundant services. Based in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, he pairs a finance and engineering educational background with a founder’s mindset from running and selling engineering ventures. Colleagues describe him as a candid, mindful communicator who turns technical strategy into measurable business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoBachelor of Science Business Administration: Finance Real Estate Law, Bachelor of Science Business Administration: Finance Real Estate Law at California State University-Long Beach - College of Business
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Github Skills (10)
expressionengine9
commerce8
ecommerce7
dry6
publish1
single-sign-on1
codeigniter1
laravel1
facebook1
database1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
happycog/brilliantretail
Feb 2012 - Feb 2016
Contributions:443 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 4 years
expressionengineecommercecommercee-commerce
dpdexter/Snippet
Sep 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 7 months
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