David Lyons
Technology Fellow at Chime
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Lyons is a Technology Fellow with 17 years of experience building and scaling high‑traffic web systems, currently shaping platform strategy and architecture at Chime. He combines deep backend expertise in Go, Ruby/Rails and microservices with pragmatic experience in realtime APIs, messaging, and large‑scale delivery systems (previously engineering Remind’s SMS and push stack to 500M messages/month). A hands‑on leader and former CTO/co‑founder in ed‑tech, he blends systems, DevOps and CI/AWS know‑how with client-side fluency in Angular/Backbone to ship end‑to‑end solutions. David is notable for evolving experimentation frameworks and blended REST/realtime API designs that reduce operational friction while enabling rapid iteration.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BCS/BA, Search, optimization, philosophy, BCS/BA, Search, optimization, philosophy at Monash University
Github Skills (44)
omniauth9
redmine9
authentication8
plugin8
rack-middleware7
node-app7
scrum7
ruby-client7
timestamp6
currency6
ruby6
enqueue5
nodejs5
guard5
reload5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
remind101/e164.rb
Jul 2015 - Oct 2018
e164.js but ruby
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 3 months
ruby
dalyons/redmine-todos-scrum-plugin
Dec 2008 - Feb 2011
Contributions:60 commits in 2 years 1 month
nestabletodosorganisedlistsplugin
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