David Staehler
Engineering Lead at Zeta Global
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Staehler is an Engineering Lead based in Sydney with a decade of experience building high-throughput backend systems using Elixir and Ruby on Rails. He has led teams delivering messaging pipelines that handle billions of monthly messages and has practical AWS/Terraform infrastructure and CI/CD expertise from greenfield microservices work. Passionate about distributed systems, architecture and security, he advocates for functional programming—co-organising a guild and promoting Elixir in production. Equally comfortable shipping features and mentoring teams, David bridges deep technical implementation with operational ownership and cross-functional collaboration. An understated strength is his track record of taking platform-level responsibilities during acquisitions and product transitions while keeping day-to-day delivery steady.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of AucklandInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Franconian International School
English, German
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Github Skills (34)
tree-structure8
genstage8
broadway7
trello7
stream6
mongoose-plugin5
activerecord5
producer5
ruby5
rails5
api-client4
redis4
java-client4
client-library4
api4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NarrativeApp/mix_systemd
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Mix tasks to generate a systemd unit file for an Elixir project
Contributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 1 PR in 1 year 7 months
mix-taskselixirunitmixsystemd
NarrativeApp/dogstatsd-elixir
Jun 2020 - May 2021
An Elixir client for DogStatsd https://www.datadoghq.com/
Contributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 8 PRs in 11 months
datadoghqelixirdogstatsdelixir-client
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