Don Walling is a seasoned technology leader, entrepreneur, and inventor with over three decades of engineering and management experience, currently co-founding and running boutique consultancy Cyas, Inc. He has led large, distributed teams at Adobe to rearchitect and scale Experience Cloud services on AWS and Azure, while driving telemetry, observability, and CI/CD improvements that accelerated production rollouts. A hands-on technologist and mentor, Don moves between strategy, prototyping, and code—authoring a patented document-processing engine and shipping high-scale community and SaaS platforms. He is equally comfortable in startup scrums and Fortune 500 governance, known for turning prototypes into revenue-generating products and increasing scalability by orders of magnitude. Based in San Francisco, he blends aerospace-trained systems thinking with practical cloud-native architecture and a relentless focus on automation and customer satisfaction.
11 years of coding experience
41 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Iowa State University
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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