David Smith
Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon
Oxford, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Smith is a Senior Software Development Manager with 11 years of engineering leadership experience, currently overseeing operations, accounts, subscriptions, data integrity, and security for Amazon Photos. He builds high-performing teams and processes that reduce operational overhead, eliminate recurring high-severity incidents, and align roles and compensation with responsibility. David’s background spans front-end architecture to services and infrastructure, with hands-on roots in Ruby on Rails, modernizing legacy systems, and shipping customer-facing tooling at scale. He is known for coordinating large security campaigns and acting as project manager in subscription domains, translating complex cross-functional challenges into measurable outcomes. Based in Oxford, Ohio, he combines a computer science foundation with a psychology perspective to prioritize team dynamics and effective communication. An understated detail: his career arc shows a consistent appetite for converting messy legacy tech and organizational friction into clean, maintainable systems and empowered teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Psychology at University of CincinnatiBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Miami University
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Github Skills (61)
pattern9
text-editing8
polymer8
web-application7
mermaid7
web-platform7
webapp7
security7
polyfills7
jekyll-bootstrap7
phoenix-framework7
owasp7
e-mail6
jquery-selectors6
html6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bigdave/javascript-project-euler
Feb 2015 - Dec 2020
My spare time, utilized as attempts at solving the Project Euler challenges using JavaScript
Contributions:16 pushes in 5 years 11 months
solvingeulernode-jsjavascriptproject-euler
bigdave/high-availability-rpi-cluster
Feb 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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