David Stanley
Vice President Of Engineering at Gymdesk
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Stanley is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure, reliability, and ML-enabled product teams for startups, nonprofits, universities, and Fortune 500s. Currently VP of Engineering, he previously led Watchful to a successful acquisition and drove systems, SRE, and InfoSec growth at Webflow—scaling teams from a handful to 30+ contributors and delivering SOC2 readiness in under a year. Hands-on as an architect and staff engineer, he’s shipped enterprise-grade PHP, Python, and JS systems and practical applied AI/ML proofs of concept. Known for clear strategic thinking and servant leadership, he excels at helping teams see the big picture while improving processes and operational resilience. Outside work he balances family life and endurance sports—an indicator of the discipline he brings to complex, long-lead engineering efforts.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Information Systems, Master of Business Administration - MBA Information Systems at Baker University
Github Skills (92)
laravel10
api10
api-documentation10
php10
slide9
laravel-queue9
rabbitmq9
queue9
api-client9
controller9
encoding9
requirejs9
horizon9
jstree9
slate9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CatfishPHP/Container
Apr 2018 - Sep 2021
Lightweight, fast, simple Dependency Injection Container
Contributions:1 review, 12 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 5 months
psr-11injectiondependency-injectiondependency-injection-containerinjection-container
Watchfulio/uncertainty-demo
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
Streamlit demo for Decoding LLM Uncertainties for Better Predictability
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes in 11 months
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