David Thorpe
Director Of Engineering at Hala Systems, Inc.
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolDavid Thorpe is a seasoned engineering leader with over 25 years in media and internet industries and 13 years in senior engineering roles, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Hala Systems in Berlin. He blends hands-on technical skills—data analysis, systems design, cloud infrastructure and IaC—with people leadership, having built and led teams of up to fifty across global organizations like Bain, YouTube and Condé Nast. His track record spans live streaming, VFX studio-in-the-cloud solutions, large-scale content delivery and pandemic-era remote transformation projects, showing a knack for operational resilience and cross-functional coordination. David is pragmatic about product value and recruitment standards, setting processes that improve team efficiency while keeping engineering close to business outcomes. He’s equally comfortable in strategic executive discussions and in Terraform/Ansible/Kubernetes playbooks, a mix that helps translate complex requirements into reliable, production-ready systems. Based in Berlin with an M.Eng in Microelectronics, he combines academic analytical rigor with practical, real-world delivery across media, cloud and AI-enabled analytics.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng Microelectronics, M.Eng Microelectronics at The University of Manchester
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Github Skills (133)
postgresql10
go-language10
youtube-api10
spi10
lirc10
cpp10
dvb-t10
whisper10
youtube10
golang10
sensor10
openvg10
postgresql-database10
plugin-architecture10
ffmpeg10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
djthorpe/flutter
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Flutter application examples
Contributions:146 commits, 90 PRs, 130 pushes in 3 months
flutterdart
mutablelogic/go-pg
Feb 2025 - Jun 2026
Postgresql Support for golang
Contributions:15 releases, 33 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 year 4 months
golangpostgresqlpgxpostgres
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