David Tootill
Owner at TootSuite Games
Mercer Island, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Tootill is a veteran software architect and founder with over four decades of experience turning greenfield products into nine-figure revenue generators and guiding large-scale rearchitectures for extreme scalability. He co-founded multiple companies and led development of flagship products that were acquired and scaled inside CA, where he drove server architecture, UI redesigns, Section 508 accessibility compliance, and patent activity. Equally comfortable in hands-on development, product strategy, and public presentation, he has deep expertise across Windows, UNIX, SQL/NoSQL, concurrent Java, and cloud-native tooling, and has contributed to notable open-source projects such as Traefik. Recently he founded a mobile game studio and continues to mentor teams and review patent work, blending entrepreneurial grit with rare cross-functional communication skills. Based on an MBA from Berkeley and a B.Math in Computer Science, he combines technical depth with business and product acumen, making him ideally suited to help early-stage companies scale reliably and compliantly.
11 years of coding experience
46 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Finance, MBA, Finance at University of California, BerkeleyB.Math, Computer Science, B.Math, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
golang10
go10
reverse-proxy10
testing10
load-balancer8
docker8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
dockers8
hector6
java6
cassandra6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
traefik/traefik
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of access logging functionalities within the Traefik project. They added the initial access log middleware, wrote tests to ensure its functionality, and integrated it into the core server components. The user also made minor corrections to existing code and updated the project's test suite, demonstrating a focus on improving the robustness and maintainability of the logging features.
zookeeperproxyload-balancingreverse-proxymesos
CiscoCloud/traefik
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 52 pushes, 13 branches in 11 days
golangproxy-serverproxyhttp-proxyreverse-proxy
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