David Achee is an empathetic engineering manager with 12+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise applications, currently leading engineering at Lattice from Burlington, VT. He combines hands-on technical leadership—designing APIs, GraphQL services, and high-performance backend systems—with a strong focus on psychological safety, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration. David has a track record of stabilizing teams through restructuring, establishing operational processes for new product domains, and delivering tight GA launches under pressure. His work includes driving multi-currency support and critical data migrations that enabled international expansion, as well as performance optimizations that cut key API response times by as much as 98%. A former interactive designer by training, he brings a design-minded pragmatism to engineering decisions and onboarding practices that speed new-hire ramp-up and long-term team effectiveness.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design at LSU
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