David Helms
Senior Software Engineer at Bandwidth Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Helms is a Senior Software Engineer based in Raleigh with six years of experience building infrastructure and deployment systems for scalable microservice architectures. He has led migration and modernization efforts—driving containerization, PaaS adoption, and CI/CD pipelines—across organizations like Bandwidth, NetSuite, and Bronto, and has hands-on experience with Vault, Consul, GitLab-CI, and Puppet. Known for designing bespoke infrastructure services as well as integrating off-the-shelf tools, he focuses on observability, elastic scaling, and multi-datacenter resilience. David pairs core language skills in Java and C++ with API and web design know-how, and uniquely blends developer-facing tooling with operational controls to ease large-scale service migration. He’s consistently sought out to be the reference for converting legacy monoliths into modern, containerized platforms and enjoys turning audit and compliance requirements into automated, scalable workflows.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
English
Github Skills (39)
bandwidth10
aws-codedeploy9
serverless-plugin8
vault8
sdk8
secrets8
hashicorp-vault7
terraform7
encryption6
webrtc6
security6
terraform-provider6
sctp6
golang5
serverless-framework5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Bandwidth/mediasoup
Jan 2021 - Jan 2025
Cutting Edge WebRTC Video Conferencing
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years
cuttingwebrtc-videowebrtcvideo-conferencingedge
dhelms-bw/serverless-offline
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
api-gatewayapidevelopinglambda-functionsserverless
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