David Purdy
VP Of Engineering at Ship Angel
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Purdy is a results-driven VP of Engineering with two decades of leadership experience building scalable supply chain and AI-infused SaaS platforms from concept to acquisition. He combines rigorous systems thinking and pragmatic architecture choices to reduce cloud spend and accelerate product roadmaps—once cutting infrastructure costs by 85% while automating a manual AI pipeline. Comfortable partnering with C-level stakeholders, he has taken startups through rapid growth and exit readiness, aligning technology, finance, and operations to improve efficiency and profitability. At Ship Angel he now architects next-generation logistics software that blends provider integrations with agentic AI, while his side work includes developing ElectUp and consulting via Five Mountains. Trained in mathematics and humanities at the University of Chicago, he brings both analytical rigor and broad contextual thinking to complex technical and business challenges. Colleagues know him for leveraging existing solutions to enter new markets sustainably and for navigating high-stakes operational crises with steady, resource-efficient strategies.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) Humanities, Master of Arts (M.A.) Humanities at University of Chicago
Github Skills (26)
syndication9
wordpress8
intranet7
carbon-emissions7
climate-change7
management7
wordpress-plugin6
seo6
sustainability6
content-management5
stream5
npr5
api4
data-visualization4
cloudflare3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ktoodev/triton-livestream-player
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Simple embeddable livestream player using the Triton SDK
Contributions:9 releases, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 months
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davidmpurdy/distributor
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Share content between your websites.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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