David Malone is a cloud-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and modern web frontends using Go, Java/Spring, React, and Redux. Based in Tampa, he blends strong automation and agile practices with hands-on cloud expertise to help enterprise customers realize transformational value from migrations and serverless architectures. An active open-source contributor, he expanded awslabs/aws-lambda-go-api-proxy to support multiple Go web frameworks and improve gateway timeout handling, demonstrating practical skill in adapting frameworks for AWS Lambda. With computer science roots from the University of Florida and additional networking certifications, he pairs systems-level networking knowledge with application development to solve performance and integration challenges.
11 years of coding experience
Network Specialist, Computer networking, CCNA, MCSA, Linux, Network Specialist, Computer networking, CCNA, MCSA, Linux at WITC New Richmond
Riverview High School
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Florida
lambda-go-api-proxy makes it easy to port APIs written with Go frameworks such as Gin (https://gin-gonic.github.io/gin/ ) to AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 8 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on extending the functionality of the `aws-lambda-go-api-proxy` library. They added support for different web frameworks like `http.HandlerFunc`, `Gorilla Mux`, and `Negroni`, demonstrating expertise in adapting existing frameworks to work with AWS Lambda and API Gateway. Their contributions involved creating adapters and test suites for seamless integration, significantly expanding the library's usability by enabling support for various Go web frameworks. They also refactored the code in the adapter files for common patterns like gateway timeouts.
An AWS IoT Load Simulator written in Golang intended to deployed on AWS Lambda
Contributions:46 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 9 months
golangaws-iotaws-lambdasimulatordeployed
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