David Piggott
Principal Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Piggott is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and operating high-availability, high-throughput API and token services at scale, currently leading platform efforts for The Walt Disney Company from Manchester. He has driven architectural transformations—creating Token Services and an API Registry that enable contract-first development and automated code generation—improving developer productivity and reducing boilerplate across large engineering organisations. Hands-on across backend and DevOps, he contributes to open-source projects like Mail-in-a-Box, where he improved mail server security and maintainability through DNS, DKIM, backup encryption and alias management changes. His background spans mobile, embedded and cloud-native systems, from leading Android teams to running compatibility layers that migrated legacy services into next-gen platforms. Known for combining technical leadership with pragmatic engineering, he often identifies and implements cross-cutting infrastructure fixes that unlock product features and team autonomy. A Cambridge CS graduate, he blends academic rigor with a long track record of shipping reliable, secure systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science Tripos, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science Tripos at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (20)
sendmail10
python10
send-email10
smtps10
smtp10
e-mail10
smtpd10
mailing10
dns10
server10
bash9
dockers7
docker7
android-ndk6
playframework6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
Sep 2014 - Jul 2015
Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 134 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the mail server's backend functionality and system configuration. They modified DNS update scripts, implemented backup encryption, and improved alias management. Furthermore, the user updated the setup scripts for DKIM and spam filtering, reflecting DevOps contributions. These changes enhanced the security and maintainability of the mail server.
everythingdovecotdkimdisposablemailbox
dhpiggott/scala-json-rpc
Jun 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:274 commits, 131 PRs, 289 pushes in 2 years 9 months
instancesrpcmarshallingjson-formatplay-json
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