David Lents
Software Engineer at Vinoshipper
Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Lents is a seasoned software engineer with over two decades building web applications and administering Unix-like systems, currently leading the CompleteDTC SaaS platform at Vinoshipper. He blends deep systems expertise—Linux/BSD/Mac OS X administration, networking, HAProxy/NGINX/Apache—with polyglot development skills spanning Perl, Python, PHP, C/C++, JavaScript and shell tooling. His career includes senior roles at O'Reilly and long-term leadership at TheDigitalStory.com and CompleteDTC, reflecting a steady progression from hands-on systems work to platform leadership. Comfortable with both SQL and NoSQL databases and a wide array of revision-control systems, he thrives in environments that require full-stack ownership and operational reliability. A former U.S. Navy sonar technician, he brings disciplined problem-solving and hardware-level knowledge that inform pragmatic, resilient software design. Always learning, he’s recently been expanding into Kotlin while continuing to shepherd production-grade SaaS systems.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
San Diego City CollegeDavid Lipscomb UniversitySonar Electronics Technician, Sonar Electronics Technician at U.S. Navy
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
html6
nginx6
php6
logging6
mysql6
react3
ios-library2
react-native2
android2
ios2
skeleton1
react-native-app1
javascript1
meteor1
boilerplate1
Github contributions (5)
dlents/react-native-magtek
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
MagTek iOS library for React Native
Contributions:20 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
ios-libraryreactreact-nativeandroidios
dlents/guzzle-zip-tax
Aug 2013 - Aug 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 7 pushes, 4 comments in 8 years 1 month
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