David Hagerty
Lead Software Engineer at Chick-fil-A Corporate Support Center
Loganville, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hagerty is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building hybrid edge/cloud systems that optimize restaurant operations through IoT and machine learning. He architects and operates Kubernetes-based platforms (k8s in cloud, k3s at the edge) across 2,000+ sites in the US and Canada, integrating MQTT-fed device telemetry with cloud ML pipelines to drive capacity and efficiency gains. A Go-focused engineer, he blends systems engineering and platform reliability—moving compute to the edge when it matters while keeping centralized orchestration and data privacy at the forefront. At Chick-fil-A he progressed from team roles to lead cloud and platform positions, showing hands-on delivery and operational ownership at scale. Outside work he champions open-source, a federated internet, and privacy, bringing that advocacy into production-grade engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology - Software Development, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology - Software Development at Georgia Gwinnett College
Github Skills (49)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
detector10
html10
reek10
android9
rust-crates9
ruby-on-rails9
android-apps9
activerecord9
tabletop8
automation8
parsing8
ios8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dathagerty/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Oct 2020
My personal dotfiles.
Contributions:3 PRs, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
vimkarabinerpersonal-dotfilesdotfileszsh
dathagerty/zmk-config
Dec 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:7 releases, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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