David Powers
Senior Software Engineer at Deel
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Powers is a Senior Software Engineer and software architect with 8+ years building high-performance, cloud-native systems across startups and large enterprises from Austin. He specializes in .NET Core backends, React/TypeScript frontends, microservices and AWS, and has a proven track record optimizing data pipelines—doubling processing speed on AWS/OpenSearch Data Prepper contributions and enhancing Logstash interoperability. A hands-on leader and mentor, he has led teams, modernized legacy stacks, and delivered end-to-end solutions including CI/CD and containerization. As a founder-consultant he translated business needs into scalable prototypes and costed AWS deployments, blending technical depth with pragmatic product thinking. Notably, his open-source work on record-based processor refactors and a suite of mutate processors shows an attention to both performance and extensibility that benefits observability pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science | Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science | Minor in Mathematics at Texas Tech University
Github Skills (11)
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analytics10
java10
testing10
logfile9
metric9
observability9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/data-prepper
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
OpenSearch Data Prepper is a component of the OpenSearch project that accepts, filters, transforms, enriches, and routes data at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:101 reviews, 50 commits, 57 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:David contributed significantly to the OpenSearch Data Prepper project by implementing and enhancing various processors. Their work included refactoring processors to utilize `Record<Event>`, developing new processors like the `DropEventsProcessor`, `KeyValueProcessor`, and several mutate processors (add, rename, copy, delete, substitute, lowercase, uppercase, trim, split), and adding tests for each, thereby expanding the project's data processing capabilities. They also improved the integration of the project with Logstash by adding in Logstash conversion for the Mutate Object processors.
tracesanalyticsprepperfiltersobservability
dapowers87/FanRemoteControl
Nov 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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