David Webb
CEO at BrightMove, Inc.
Saint Augustine, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Webb is an experienced technology executive and enterprise architect with 12+ years building large-scale systems and leading product strategy as CEO of BrightMove, a recruiting platform that applies Big Data to search and recommendation across millions of applicant documents. He combines deep hands-on expertise in NoSQL, Cassandra, Solr/Lucene, and enterprise Java containers with a history of consulting for banks and Fortune-level clients on large data-store and performance tuning projects. As a contributor to the Spring Data Cassandra project, he has improved developer ergonomics and cluster metadata tooling, reflecting a pragmatic focus on production-ready integrations. Based in Saint Augustine, Florida, he runs a private consulting practice (Prowave) that specializes in high-end tuning and architecture for JBoss, Tomcat, Solr and Cassandra, bridging strategic leadership and low-level engineering. Colleagues describe him as a results-oriented technologist who prefers to lead by building—he’s explicitly not looking for coaching—and who thrives on turning complex data problems into practical, scalable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSCS Computer Science, BSCS Computer Science at University of North FloridaAS General, AS General at University of Florida
Github Skills (10)
javas10
spring-data10
spring10
cassandra10
cassandra-database10
java10
database-design9
unit-testing9
app-framework9
web-framework9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spring-projects/spring-data-cassandra
Nov 2013 - Nov 2015
Provides support to increase developer productivity in Java when using Apache Cassandra. Uses familiar Spring concepts such as a template classes for core API usage and lightweight repository style data access.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:179 commits, 5 PRs, 56 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the Spring Data Cassandra framework by implementing new features and providing utility classes. Their contributions involved adding interfaces for session callbacks and implementing a `describeRing()` method to expose cluster metadata. The user also added unit tests to validate the implemented features by leveraging the Cassandra-Unit embedded database.
spring-bootspring-dataapidddcql
prowave/chargify-webhook-java
Jun 2016 - Mar 2021
Java library to parse the request body of a Chargify Webhook.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 42 commits in 4 years 9 months
java-librarybodywebhookrequestjava
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