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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.

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Apr 2021 — Jul 2023
Earthly

Earthly

CTO

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
Jul 2019 — Mar 2021
Kin + Carta

Kin + Carta

Lead Software Engineer

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%