David Ker is an engineering manager and Ruby on Rails specialist with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading teams at Planning Center. He blends a hands-on development mindset—shipping Rails back ends and React front ends—with a background in networking and IT support, which gives him a pragmatic operational perspective on reliability and DevOps. David has a track record of mentoring junior engineers, owning end-to-end features like search and file-storage migrations, and running a side consultancy, Plateau Digital, that keeps him close to diverse business needs. Based in Seattle, he moves quickly from problem discovery to practical solutions and often contributes to smoother on-call and deployment practices thanks to his earlier IT and security training.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Information Security and Risk Management, Certificate, Information Security and Risk Management at University of Washington
Certificate, Ruby on Rails, Certificate, Ruby on Rails at Code Fellows
BS, Information Technology - Security, BS, Information Technology - Security at Western Governors University
Contributions:24 PRs, 147 pushes, 42 branches in 6 years
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David Ker - Engineering Manager at Plateau Digital