David Beath
Principal (Founder) at BuildFirst
Greater Richmond Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Beath is a founder and principal who turns technology shifts—most recently AI—into tangible, revenue-driving tools by combining hands-on prototyping with executive coaching. With 25+ years across startups and global enterprises, he scaled lastminute.com from employee 22 to IPO, led DBS’s innovation programs, and built internal systems at Capital One used by thousands. He specializes in rapidly moving teams from strategy decks to working prototypes, advising CEOs and senior leaders under time pressure to show impact. As founder of BuildFirst and Luminary he pairs practical AI builds with curated strategic thinking, using AI to amplify insight and make complex shifts intelligible. His background in design-led innovation at IDEO and experience running large-scale hackathons gives him a rare blend of product, people, and organizational-change expertise. Notably, he still codes AI prototypes himself—legal lead generators, hotel copilots and Chiefs-of-Staff agents—so his guidance is grounded in technical credibility.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Les RochesSecondary School, Secondary School at Monkton Combe School
Github Skills (23)
rss10
feed10
crawling10
crawler10
pypi10
aiohttp10
python9
rdf9
subscriber8
asyncio8
json8
static-site7
javascript5
markdown5
reader4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DBeath/feedsearch
Nov 2017 - Nov 2022
Search sites for RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds.
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 5 years 1 month
rssfeedspython3searchatom
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