Dave North
Principal Engineer at Rewind
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDave North is a Principal Engineer and seasoned cloud platforms leader with 12+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS infrastructure from the ground up. Based in Ottawa, he has repeatedly transformed DevOps groups into high-performing platform and security teams, driving automation, observability, and cost optimizations that saved hundreds of thousands annually. At Rewind he led platform migrations to containerized deploys, established incident response and career laddering practices, and ran Trust initiatives covering SOC2/ISO and app/cloud security. He combines hands-on engineering (Terraform, AWS, ECS, serverless patterns) with people-first leadership that earned top team-health scores and peer recognition. Outside work he’s a cloud-and-gadget enthusiast who tinkers with 3D printing and racing projects, bringing a pragmatic maker’s curiosity to large-scale reliability problems.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Lutterworth Grammar SchoolBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Brock University
English
Github Skills (172)
docker-container10
alarm10
aws-session-manager10
sidekiq10
aws-security-hub10
aws-sdk10
s3-bucket10
aws10
lambda9
papertrail9
docker-logs9
ruby9
security9
dockerfile9
docker-image9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rewindio/aws-cloudwatch-slack-notifier
Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
Lambda to send notifications to Slack for Cloudwatch alarms
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 year 7 months
cloudwatch-alarmsslack
rewindio/github-action-rubocop
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Runs rubocop only on the changes in the current commit
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 5 months
rubyupstreamrunsrefactoringpull-request
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