David Hay
Principal Engineer at GridX, Inc.
Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Hay is a Principal Engineer with 30+ years of experience architecting scalable, high-reliability systems across aerospace, consumer, and enterprise domains, now leading platform work at GridX. He combines deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native microservices, and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS) with a proven track record of cutting costs and improving performance through pragmatic modernization efforts. At recent companies he built mission planning and command-and-control ground systems for satellite operations, modernized large PHP/Java monoliths to React/GraphQL microservices, and drove infra-as-code, CI/CD, and observability best practices. A committed mentor and technical strategist, he founded cross-platform architecture practices at HomeAdvisor and champions AI-assisted developer tooling to boost engineering velocity. He also contributes to open-source tooling ecosystems (e.g., Kafka UI/monitoring projects), reflecting a steady focus on developer productivity and operational transparency. Based in Wheat Ridge, CO, he blends systems-level thinking with practical delivery to turn complex requirements into reliable, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Stackoverflow
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spring
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Github Skills (20)
licensing10
key-management10
kafka10
java10
webui10
javas10
spring-boot10
rights-management10
javascript9
spring9
configurations9
docker8
dockers8
jooq6
sql6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
HomeAdvisor/Kafdrop
Mar 2016 - Jan 2020
Kafka UI and Monitoring Tool
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to adding copyright headers to multiple source files, including JavaScript, Java, and configuration files. These changes indicate the user was involved in setting up and maintaining the codebase, adding essential metadata to different components of the project. The commits touch upon various parts of the application, suggesting a role in standardizing the codebase and ensuring proper licensing and attribution.
kafka-uisinkapache-kafkaweb-uimonitoring-tool
searchbox-io/Jest
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Elasticsearch Java Rest Client.
Contributions:1 commit, 1 comment, 3 issues in 1 day
typesensefulltext-searchsynonymsrest-clientjava-rest
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