David Haifley
Senior Software Engineer at solo.io
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Haifley is a senior software engineer with over 10 years building cloud-native microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures that prioritize scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency. He has driven high-availability REST and event pipelines—designing systems that handled hundreds of thousands of agents and events per minute with five-nines uptime—while optimizing cloud deployments and CI/CD to reduce operational costs. At companies like Circonus and Apica he led backend API development and orchestration of monitoring platforms, and earlier work delivered real-time retail and logistics systems that processed enterprise sales and optimized fleet operations. Comfortable translating business needs into pragmatic technical designs, he also established engineering standards and remote collaboration practices that reduced incidents and accelerated delivery. Based in the United States with a computational science background, he combines deep backend systems expertise with a knack for designing performant, maintainable services that scale in production.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
UMBCComputational Science, Computational Science at Parkville High School
English
Github Skills (54)
monitoring10
json10
caching10
bin-packing10
varnish10
golang10
modbus10
api-client9
reverse-proxy9
snyk9
http-proxy9
kafka9
time-series9
accelerator9
telegraf9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
circonus-labs/gosnowth
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
IRONdb API client for Go
Contributions:57 releases, 35 reviews, 75 commits in 3 years 11 months
golangapiapi-clientirondb-clientsirondb
circonus-labs/go-apiclient
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Circonus API Client for Go
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 13 commits in 5 months
golangapiapi-clientgocirconus
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