David Hinkle
VP Of Engineering at Securly
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Hinkle is a deeply technical, hands-on VP of Engineering with over two decades building high-performance, secure cloud systems and AI research initiatives from San Jose. He has overseen platforms that serve tens of millions of concurrent users, specializing in performance tuning, SRE, AWS operations, and cost optimization during transitions from VC to PE ownership. A seasoned manager, he has led teams of 30+ engineers through hyper-scaling, incident triage, and strategic customer escalations while remaining fluent in low-level and systems languages like C, Python, and Go. His career began in router and firmware development and co-founding an internet-filtering product that scaled to nationwide school use, reflecting a rare blend of networking, security, and product-driven engineering. Known for inventing the SmartPac filtering solution and executing significant operational cost savings, he brings pragmatic, measurable impact to large-scale, security-sensitive environments.
22 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (132)
nosql10
data-model10
trinitycore10
azerothcore10
database10
fst10
in-memory10
survival10
disk10
strings10
lists10
redis10
key-value10
message-broker10
dyndns9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
drachs/vimconfig
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
nroach44/bandwidthd
Dec 2003 - Jun 2011
A bandwidthd fork that attempts to make use of automake
Contributions:109 commits in 7 years 7 months
automake
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