David Sommers
CTO at Saisystems Health
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Sommers is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience building and scaling products across healthcare, real estate, and consumer internet companies. As Co-founder & CTO of vflok and former CTO of Rent and DocuTAP, he combines hands-on software and infrastructure expertise with strategic leadership that turns turnaround challenges into profitable growth. He excels at architecting secure, high-availability platforms, driving cloud migrations and data consolidation (including single Snowflake warehouses) while keeping product delivery fast through CI/CD and agile practices. A pragmatic builder, he’s led integrations and M&A technical due diligence, unified competing teams post-merger, and balanced product innovation with operational cost controls. David also contributes to open-source Ruby tooling—improving caching and engine efficiency in projects like rabl—reflecting a preference for clean, performant systems. Based in Atlanta, he brings a design-minded, process-driven approach to aligning technology, people, and business outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Github Skills (4)
ruby10
template-engine10
caching10
testing10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nesquena/rabl
Mar 2012 - Jul 2016
General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Rabl library by implementing and refining caching mechanisms. Their work involved setting up cache keys, allowing options for the cache store, and integrating caching within the engine. They also updated tests to incorporate caching and ensure cache hits, improving the efficiency of the templating engine. Furthermore, the user addressed whitespace and formatting issues to improve code readability.
bsonmsgpackplistrubytemplating
Experity/www.clockwisemd.com
Aug 2016 - Oct 2019
Forward facing web site
Contributions:19 PRs, 58 pushes, 21 branches in 3 years 2 months
javascriptweb-siteforward
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