Davin Smith
Director Of Software Engineering at Yum! Brands
Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolDavin Smith is a Director of Software Engineering with 10+ years of hands-on and leadership experience building cloud-native web platforms and high-throughput data systems. He has led teams through legacy-to-cloud migrations, serverless and Kubernetes architectures, and managed mission-critical streaming platforms handling hundreds of millions of messages per day. A pragmatic product-minded technologist, Davin co-founded startups and served as CTO twice, using prototyping and Figma to validate product-market fit before scaling on AWS and Flutter. At enterprise scale he’s driven cultural shifts and operational sustainability during rapid growth and contraction, notably at Homepoint and Dealer Inspire. Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, he combines UX-aware design roots with deep expertise in IaC, CI/CD, IIoT, and database design to turn complex requirements into reliable, scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Design and Visual Communications, Graphical Interface Design, Bachelor's degree, Design and Visual Communications, Graphical Interface Design at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Github Skills (8)
wrapper7
freshdesk7
api4
javascript3
requirejs3
nodejs3
js2
aurelia2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davinthesmith/home_server
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
A React and GraphQL server for in-home projects
Contributions:28 PRs, 64 pushes, 29 branches in 5 months
graphql-serverreactgraphql
davinthesmith/node-freshdesk-api
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
apinodejsfreshdesknode-wrapperwrapper
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