David Newman
Co-founder & CTO at Howie
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Newman is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 11 years of hands-on experience building consumer products and distributed systems, currently serving as CTO at Howie. He blends a user-first design sensibility with deep technical breadth—shipping production services in Go, JavaScript, Ruby and Swift and running large-scale, on-demand distributed platforms. David has repeatedly led engineering teams from startup to scale, recruiting and mentoring teams, setting coding standards, and owning devops and CI/CD across AWS, Docker, Lambda and ECS. His background includes building multiplayer game infrastructure at Minefold and pioneering blockchain-based profit-sharing systems at Assembly, reflecting a mix of systems engineering and product-driven experimentation. Based in Seattle and a Zig enthusiast, he continuously explores emerging tech and enjoys getting the details right while shaping long-term platform strategy.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (176)
azure-functions10
serverless10
serverless-applications10
lambda10
buildkite10
aws-lambda10
aws-sam10
serverless-framework10
aws-dynamodb10
sam10
aws10
continuous-delivery9
azure9
serverless-architectures9
aws-apigateway9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
whatupdave/zigwasm
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Trying out game development in zig targeting the web
Contributions:2 commits, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
game-in-developmentgamedevgame-developmentzigtargeting
partycloud/party
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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