David West
Principal Software Engineer AI & Emerging Technologies at Vistra Corp.
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDavid West is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI and emerging technologies with 11 years of experience building enterprise software for the utilities and energy sectors. Based in Fort Worth, he brings deep hands-on expertise in .NET, C#, JavaScript and Microsoft SQL Server while evolving teams and platforms from his prior roles as Manager II and Lead Developer. He combines practical dev leadership—mentoring, architecture and delivery—with an eye for integrating modern AI capabilities into legacy utility systems. His background spans full lifecycle product delivery at Ambit and Vistra, and an uncommon early career foundation in emergency response informs a pragmatic, risk-aware approach to system design.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Emergency Response, Emergency Response at International ALERT Academy
English
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Github Skills (75)
markdown10
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ai9
azure9
semantic-search9
cloudflare9
llm9
cloudflare-workers9
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openai9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
westdavidr/youngliving-node
Nov 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
apiclient-libraryessentialnodejsnodejs-client
westdavidr/auth-module
Jan 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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