Dave Cervi
CEO & Founder at Trace0
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolDave Cervi is a Senior Software Engineer and founder with 10 years’ experience building backend platforms and developer assessment tooling from Dublin. As CEO of CodeScreen since 2018 he combines product-driven entrepreneurship with hands-on engineering, while repeatedly returning to senior backend roles at Ohme to scale EV-charging infrastructure. His career spans FinTech, InsurTech, public sector and arts institutions, with deep expertise in Java, TypeScript/Node.js, JVM performance tuning and AWS serverless architectures. He has led high-stakes projects including the NHS Test & Trace backend and complex risk analytics for OpenGamma, bringing both performance-first engineering and pragmatic delivery. Known for founding and shipping realistic asynchronous developer assessments, he pairs startup grit with enterprise-grade reliability. A first-class Computer Science graduate from Maynooth, he often occupies the intersection of architecture, optimisation and product-led engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science and Software Engineering, BSc Computer Science and Software Engineering at Maynooth University
English
Github Skills (27)
complex-event-processing10
finance10
java10
quantitative-finance10
analytics9
python9
openjdk9
querying6
sequence6
fibonacci6
endpoint5
javascript4
angular-library4
nodejs4
php3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Code-Screen/Code-Screen.github.io
Oct 2019 - Nov 2025
Documentation for creating custom assessments on CodeScreen and for using the CodeScreen API.
Contributions:2 PRs, 88 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
apipythonassessments
Code-Screen/Ruby-CodeScreen-Fibonacci
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
Example CodeScreen Ruby assessment that requires the candidate to return the nth element in the Fibonacci sequence.
Contributions:3 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ruby
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