DavidĀ Kettlestrings
Engineering Manager at The Marketing Store, North America
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kettlestrings is an engineering manager with nine years of professional software experience and a Ph.D. in mathematics, blending rigorous research skills with hands-on product and platform engineering. He progressed from academia and research into testing, product ownership, cartographic data quality research, and ultimately senior development and leadership roles at HERE Maps, Expedia, and The Marketing Store. Based in Munich, he is comfortable debugging legacy systems, architecting new platforms, negotiating timelines with stakeholders, and mentoring engineers into leadership. His background in cartographic data quality and academic publishing gives him a distinctive ability to reason about spatial data integrity and complex, evidence-driven decision-making. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem-solver who expands scope wherever he works, from building infrastructure to shaping product direction. He combines technical depth with soft skills to lead teams that deliver reliable, scalable software.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Northern Illinois University
Github Skills (10)
algebra7
geometric7
theory6
scala6
scala-native5
functional-programming4
number-theory4
math4
tagless-final4
jekyll2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dkettlestrings/thunder
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:83 commits, 73 PRs, 44 pushes in 11 months
functional-programmingnumber-theoryscalatheoryalgebraic
dkettlestrings/dkettlestrings.github.io
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
jekyllgithub-pages-site
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