David 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 Auckland
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Franconian International School
An Elixir client for DogStatsd https://www.datadoghq.com/
Contributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 8 PRs in 11 months
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