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David I.
Highly technical engineering leader passionate about tackling climate change
Highly technical engineering leader with over twelve years of software engineering expertise. I specialise in empowering teams to continuously improve through hands-on coaching and the adoption of Agile methodologies. Passionate about tackling climate change, I've adapted my lifestyle and career to maximise my positive impact.
Work
- earthly.org
Earthly helps companies invest in nature, remove carbon from the atmosphere, restore nature and improve livelihoods. I facilitated this by defining and executing the company-wide technical strategy including hiring, mentoring and hands-on coding.
Experience
Earthly
CTO
Apr 2021 - Jul 2023
Helping companies to protect and regenerate the Earth through high quality nature-based solutions
- Instrumental in setting up company-wide tooling, processes and a collaborative culture in a remote setting
- Owned company-wide technical strategy in harmony with product strategy
- Reduced feature cycle-time from weeks to two days while maintaining 99.9% uptime by implementing engineering, CI/CD and architectural best practices
Kin + Carta
Lead Software Engineer
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
A global consulting firm built for the 2020s, Kin + Carta exists to make the world work better.
- Acted as technical lead and architect over multiple platforms on multiple projects, including one with over 40 engineers over four teams
- Led design and implementation of multiple solutions from whiteboard through to production
- Introduced a culture of testing to an entire department. Through coaching increased the test coverage on one project from 5% to over 80%
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