David Meads
Founder CEO at zention.app
Hanover, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Meads is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 12+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native platforms and infrastructure. He has led platform and automation teams at CarGurus and architected enterprise cloud and search systems at Cengage, scaling Lucene search to handle over 170M documents. Comfortable across the full stack—from systems programming in C/C++ and Rust to distributed systems, Kafka, Kubernetes, and CI/CD—he blends hands-on engineering with team-building and lean delivery practices. As CEO of zention.app he applies that operational and product expertise to early-stage startup challenges, with a proven track record of reducing technical debt and improving velocity. Notably, he pairs deep performance and observability instincts (Prometheus/Grafana, perf) with a history of driving organization-wide adoption of BDD/TDD and continuous delivery.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at Western Michigan University
Github Skills (10)
elasticsearch-client6
cookbook6
1c6
elasticsearch4
proxy-server3
nodejs3
proxy2
css2
js1
javascript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dbmeads/reactivate
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:78 commits, 1 PR, 75 pushes in 4 months
dbmeads/rille
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:101 commits, 97 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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