David Kleinschmidt
Principal Software Engineer at Electric Power Engineers
Buffalo, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kleinschmidt is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable, cost-aware systems and guiding teams through rapid growth and acquisition. He led a startup-to-scale transformation that produced an event-driven data pipeline handling ~2000 ops/sec, enabled a zero-downtime migration of a 33 TB database, and cut ML classifier costs by 90%. Comfortable across cloud platforms and Kubernetes, he designs systems with observability, reliability, and cloud pricing baked into architecture choices. He pairs hands-on optimization with process and CD improvements, helping teams ship safer, faster software under scrutiny. Based in Buffalo, NY, he brings a pragmatic blend of product empathy and deep technical craft cultivated from startup scrappiness to enterprise-grade operations. An understated strength is translating operational pain into enduring architecture—turning a “minor” persistence refactor into a company-defining data platform.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (48)
aurora10
database-management9
database-migrations9
migration9
flyway9
database8
java8
redgate8
database-deployment8
continuous-deployment8
postgresql7
mysql7
devops7
continuous-delivery7
db27
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zobar/resume
Dec 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
zobar/atdt
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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