David Hart
CTO, Co-Founder at NetFoundry
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Hart is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO of NetFoundry, with over two decades of experience designing and delivering remote connectivity and IoT platforms. He led successive generations of IoT solutions through roles as CTO of Axeda and head of ThingWorx’s IoT segment at PTC, guiding product, architecture, and professional services from inception to market adoption and acquisition. Known for combining deep systems-level engineering with product vision, he helped commercialize intelligent device management and secure, zero-trust networking (OpenZiti) for connected products. Based in Rochester, NY, he has repeatedly scaled teams and technology stacks across startups and acquired businesses, translating complex connectivity challenges into deployable platforms. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between hands-on architecture and executive strategy, often shaping go-to-market technical narratives that accelerate customer deployments.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Le Moyne College
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Github Skills (87)
end-to-end-encryption10
tunnel10
reverse-proxy10
peer-to-peer10
security10
robust10
swiftui10
urlprotocol10
mesh10
vpn10
network-extension10
file-sharing10
sdk10
tunneling10
golang10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openziti/ziti-mattermost-action-py
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
GitHub Action that posts to a Mattermost webhook endpoint over OpenZiti
Contributions:5 reviews, 117 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
webhookopenzitiendpointmattermostposts
openziti/ziti-tunnel-apple
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
Ziti mobile and desktop edge clients for Apple devices
Contributions:1 release, 44 reviews, 942 commits in 4 years 8 months
ziti-mobile-edgenetwork-extensionziti-desktop-edgeedgeswift
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