Summary
David Kavanagh is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years focused on building and operating scalable cloud services, currently deploying multi-region Python and Java applications at ViaSat. He brings deep hands-on experience with AWS-compatible private clouds, serverless architectures, Ansible and CloudFormation, and a history of leading complex feature work and SCRUM duties at enterprise scale. A pragmatic maker and coder based in Rochester, NY, he blends UX-aware tooling experience from early web stacks (Pyramid, AngularJS) with modern observability and uptime practices. Notably, he built one of the first iPhone apps to control EC2 resources, reflecting a long-standing curiosity for practical cloud tooling.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
BA, Computer & Information Science, BA, Computer & Information Science at State University of New York College at Potsdam