Summary
David Sevilla is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building reliable, production-grade backend systems and developer tools. He has driven platform and API infrastructure at Datadog, improved identity and attribution systems at Rokt, and now contributes to engineering at Blacksmith, blending Go, Python, and Kubernetes expertise. His work spans building deployment safety nets (canary health checks that halt bad deployments), API access controls, and edge-sidecar proxies for dynamic discovery and rate limiting. He pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring—having guided interns and new engineers through medium-sized projects—and brings a pragmatic, customer-aware approach to product-facing infrastructure. Notably, his early contributions include speeding up large-scale search ranker debugging and implementing high-performance Python/C++ bindings, highlighting his ability to optimize developer workflows as well as runtime systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Hunterdon Central Regional High School