David Golden
Chief Architect CTO at SchoolBlocks
Durango, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Golden is a Chief Architect and CTO with eight years of hands-on experience building and scaling a SaaS platform serving over 1,500 K–12 websites. He leads engineering and DevOps for a containerized JavaScript/React/Next.js frontend with Python/Django and PHP APIs on AWS, using Terraform, CI/CD, and Fargate to ensure performance and reliability at scale. A self-taught web developer who transitioned from founding a curbside composting business, he brings uncommon operational grit and a systems-thinking perspective rooted in environmental science. David combines product-minded engineering with infrastructure expertise, regularly making technical trade-offs that balance maintainability and growth. Based in Durango, Colorado, he thrives on learning new technologies and translating real-world constraints into pragmatic platform improvements.
8 years of coding experience
Tropical Rainforest Studies, Tropical Rainforest Studies at School for Field Studies: AustraliaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Science at Dickinson College
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Github Skills (191)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
davidgolden/ediblio
Mar 2019 - Feb 2023
Ediblio App (formerly recipe-cloud)
Contributions:361 commits, 38 PRs, 296 pushes in 3 years 11 months
app-storerevit-apibeancountuser-guidepcf
davidgolden/tabletofarmcompost
Dec 2017 - Aug 2020
Durango's curbside composting company!
Contributions:14 PRs, 126 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 7 months
curbsidecomposting
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