David Ker
Engineering Manager at Plateau Digital
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid 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 WashingtonCertificate, Ruby on Rails, Certificate, Ruby on Rails at Code FellowsBS, Information Technology - Security, BS, Information Technology - Security at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (32)
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vue6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
snappy316/middleman-tailwind-template
Dec 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
snappy316/dotfiles
Apr 2020 - Apr 2026
Contributions:24 PRs, 147 pushes, 42 branches in 6 years
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