David Wimsey
Team Lead - Date Infrastructure
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Wimsey is a seasoned engineering leader specializing in large-scale data infrastructure and real-time streaming systems, currently leading Date Infrastructure at Bandwidth Inc. He has 12+ years of experience building highly redundant, cross–data center pipelines that handle petabyte-scale storage and billions of transactions daily, with deep hands-on expertise in Kafka, Apache Storm/Trident, and "exactly-once" processing. David’s background spans backend systems, automation (Ansible, Jenkins), and reproducible test environments using Vagrant across VMware, VirtualBox and AWS, and he’s driven dramatic performance gains—cutting billing runs from 40 hours to 20 minutes. He’s also a pragmatic developer with a history in telecom billing, regulatory/taxing issues, and mobile success (an iOS app that reached #8 paid). An active open-source contributor, he’s improved cross-platform build and debugging support for the libRocket UI library, demonstrating attention to tooling and portability as well as production-scale systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
NCSU
English
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
multiplatform9
build-system9
cross-platform9
ios8
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
libRocket/libRocket
Jun 2014 - Feb 2020
libRocket - The HTML/CSS User Interface library
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:238 commits, 24 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:David made several commits focused on enhancing the libRocket library, including changes related to debugging, cross-platform compatibility, and build system integration. They implemented compiler-specific debugging features and improved the detection of 64-bit architectures. Additionally, the user worked on integrating iOS project file generation and addressed compiler warnings to improve code quality. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the library's build process and platform support.
user-interfacecssjavascripthtml-csslibrocket
dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
Oct 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:15 PRs, 80 pushes, 26 branches in 4 years 5 months
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