Mitchell Davis
Founder at Optimally Business Performance
Liberty, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchell Davis is a Staff Full-Stack Engineer and engineering leader with 18+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS, enterprise platforms, and high-impact data products. He blends hands-on full-stack delivery (TypeScript, Python, React, NestJS) with strategic leadership—founding and CTO experience plus multi-team engineering management that drove product, reliability, and cost optimizations. Mitchell has repeatedly led cloud transformations and DevOps adoption early in organizations, turning containerization and CI/CD into measurable business wins (including a big-data product that became the company’s most profitable offering). He’s comfortable both architecting systems for hundreds of thousands of users and mentoring engineers to reduce turnover and improve delivery. Based in Liberty, Missouri, he brings a pragmatic founder’s mindset to staff-level execution, with a knack for aligning technical strategy to product and operational outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Engineering Management, Master's degree Engineering Management at University of Kansas – Engineering ManagementBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English
Github Skills (59)
switch10
hashicorp-vault10
secrets10
starlark10
vault10
nvm10
versioning10
pypi10
encryption10
security9
docker9
windows9
bazel9
golang9
go9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
VeriShip/grunt-niteo-spawn
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:7 releases, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
gruntspawnpromisedutil
VeriShip/grunt-niteo-cdbuild
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 releases, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 10 months
continuouscontinuous-deliveryhelper-library
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