David Jackson
Vice President, Cloud Automation And Tooling
Ireland
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Top SchoolDavid Jackson is a seasoned cloud architect and engineering leader with over a decade of experience, currently serving as Vice President of Cloud Automation and Tooling at Fidelity Investments. He specializes in infrastructure as code—notably Terraform and OpenTofu—and designing serverless AWS solutions using API Gateway, Step Functions, Lambda, and DynamoDB to automate and scale enterprise platforms. His career at Fidelity spans progressive technical and leadership roles from hands-on software development through director-level architecture to his current VP remit, giving him deep institutional and systems-level insight. Beyond cloud, he maintains an active interest in mobile development, having published multiple iOS apps, which reflects a practical full-stack curiosity that informs user-focused platform decisions. Educated at Trinity College Dublin with a Master’s in Applied IT Architecture, he combines strong academic grounding with a track record of turning complex infrastructure needs into repeatable, automated tooling.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B. A. (mod.), Computer Science, 2.1, B. A. (mod.), Computer Science, 2.1 at Trinity College DublinMaster’s Degree, Applied IT Architecture, 3.94 GPA - (First Class Honours), Master’s Degree, Applied IT Architecture, 3.94 GPA - (First Class Honours) at Institute of Technology, Tallaght
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Github Skills (7)
lambda9
serverless-framework8
aws8
testing7
serverless6
aws-lambda2
server-side2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Learnspree/Serverless-Language-Performance-Framework
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
A framework for testing serverless platform performance
Contributions:27 releases, 277 commits, 105 PRs in 1 year 1 month
serverless-testingtestingserverlessperformanceaws
Learnspree/spf-web
Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
Website for Serverless Performance Framework Data Display
Contributions:14 releases, 8 PRs, 72 pushes in 5 months
performanceserverlessaws-lambdaserver-side
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