David David
@daviddavid4
Senior platform & AI engineer building end-to-end systems with clean architecture and reliability.
What I'm looking for
I’m a software engineer who’s spent 10+ years building platforms end-to-end—from observability systems and AI pipelines to compilers and game engines—owning architecture down to production. I’m at my best when I can ship quietly excellent systems that still work well long after I’m done.
Most recently, I built a RAG + agentic AI pipeline from scratch at Alison.AI, including embeddings, vector search, chunking, and autonomous LLM agents that extract creative insights from 10K+ ad creatives/week—saving ~6 hours of manual work per client per day. I’ve scaled onboarding from 5 to 50+/month with an automated ingestion pipeline, moved infrastructure to Terraform on GCP, and partnered with the CTO on roadmap and architecture.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Software Engineer
Alison.AI
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025 (2 years)
Built Alison.AI’s RAG and agentic AI system from scratch, designing the end-to-end pipeline (embeddings, vector search, chunking, and autonomous agents) that extracts creative insights from 10K+ ad creatives/week, saving ~6 hours of manual work per client per day. Scaled client onboarding from 5 to 50+/month with an automated ingestion pipeline and tightened infrastructure/security by moving workl
Senior Software Engineer
Datadog
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year)
Led the post-acquisition integration to GA in under 3 months by integrating 12+ microservices from Seekret into Datadog’s Universal Service Monitoring. Rebuilt the React/TypeScript visualization layer to make dashboards 50% faster and ran knowledge transfer sessions for 50+ engineers, reducing ramp-up from weeks to days.
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Seekret
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year)
As an early engineer, served as primary technical contact during due diligence—screening 50+ candidates and helping set the hiring bar as the company scaled. Reshaped the distributed architecture by introducing ClickHouse, moving to event-driven microservices, and running 12+ Kubernetes services across a polyglot stack (Node.js gateway, Go ingestion, Rust eBPF capture, Python pipelines), while als
Full Stack Engineer
CoderZ
Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 (2 years)
Built a Scratch-to-EV3 compiler used by 150K+ students across 30+ countries by designing a block-to-bytecode compiler (AST extraction, type resolution, EV3 code generation). Continued as primary technical owner after the Mindflow acquisition to implement a Scratch-to-Unity runtime engine supporting real-time multiplayer classroom sessions and expanded the platform with i18n/RTL-LTR (5+ languages)
Engineering Lead
Mindflow
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year)
Architected and shipped a real-time multiplayer Unity engine with a custom Rust networking layer, which was the flagship deliverable that led CoderZ to acquire the studio. As Engineering Lead, led a 4-person team and delivered across domains including React + Node.js enterprise dashboards, Elasticsearch analytics with sub-second queries over millions of records, and a C++ to Electron desktop migra
Full Stack Developer
Independent Software Consulting
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 (2 years)
Ran an independent practice for 2 years delivering production systems for 10+ startup and enterprise clients end-to-end using React, Node.js, GraphQL, and React Native. Built a serverless PWA for Israel’s largest mall operator (18 malls), implementing offline-first caching and push notifications (delivered via Beatman agency).
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Tel-Ran College of Programming & Software Engineering
Full Stack Software Development Program, Full Stack Software Development
2016 - 2017
Completed a Full Stack Software Development program covering backend and frontend engineering, data structures, concurrency, and design patterns such as SOLID and MVC.
Russian State Social University (RGSU)
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science & Computing Technology
2011 - 2015
Earned a Bachelor of Computer Science with a focus on algorithms, data structures, system architecture, object-oriented design, and discrete mathematics.
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Website
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