David Witherspoon
Staff Software Engineer at Human Interest
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Witherspoon is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, low-latency network systems and cloud platforms, currently at Human Interest after a multi-year engineering role at Amazon. He has led engineering teams and open source efforts at Kaazing, launching a real-time web communications platform, maintaining the K3po project, and publishing a widely used Docker release with 20k+ pulls. Comfortable across Java, JavaScript, networking protocols (HTTP/2, WebSocket, TCP), and CI/CD automation, he combines hands-on system design with team leadership and operational rigor. A frequent speaker and meetup participant, he enjoys translating complex distributed systems problems into practical, production-ready solutions and mentoring engineers along the way.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Santa Clara UniversitySaint George's School
Github Skills (153)
truth10
javascript-client10
javascript10
client-library10
amazon-chime-sdk10
docker-compose10
react-component10
armv610
sdk10
react-android10
aws-sdk10
gateway10
nodejs10
buildkit10
communications10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dpwspoon/nukleus-http-cache.java
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 118 pushes, 23 branches in 8 months
http-cacherediscache
dpwspoon/nukleus-http-cache.spec
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 65 pushes, 17 branches in 8 months
specificationhttp-cachecache
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