David Arnold
Lead Software Architect at McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Arnold is a Lead Software Architect with nine years of focused experience aligning enterprise IT architecture with business goals at McMaster University, where he has progressed from systems integration and developer leadership into enterprise architecture. He specializes in designing platform-independent data models and integration strategies, applying J2EE, Spring, JMS, EIP and TOGAF-informed practices to maximize development agility while minimizing operational overhead. A hands-on technical leader, he mentors teams, defines development standards, and maintains an enterprise architecture repository to ensure traceable, reusable artifacts. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, he pairs deep legacy-mainframe integration experience with modern web and virtualized platform design—an uncommon blend that helps bridge decades-old systems to contemporary service-oriented architectures.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Glendale SecondaryUniversity of Toronto - University College
Github Skills (30)
java9
kafka-connector8
reactive8
qt7
kubernetes7
kafka-connect7
linux7
cloud-native7
science7
macos6
oracle6
quarkus6
windows6
kafka6
azure5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
watermelonjam/kafka-connect-logminer
Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
mcmaster-apis/api-client-samples
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:43 reviews, 41 PRs, 80 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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