Summary
Duncan Davidson is a veteran technology leader and software engineer with 17 years of experience building developer platforms, cloud services, and large-scale web systems. Currently Senior VP of Platform Engineering at Webflow, he has held senior roles at Shopify and Microsoft and played a foundational role at the Apache Software Foundation as the original author of Tomcat and Ant. He blends hands-on engineering (Ruby, Rails, Java, iOS/macOS, Swift/Objective‑C) with strategic leadership in developer productivity, open source stewardship, and software architecture. A published author and public speaker, he also brings an unusual creative perspective as an accomplished conference photographer. His career uniquely spans low-level Java standards work through modern cloud-native developer tooling, making him adept at guiding teams through technical transitions and acquisitions. Based in Greece, he remains a lifelong Unix enthusiast who champions open source processes and community governance.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer