David Helkowski
Founder CEO at Dry Ark LLC
Tsukuba, Japan
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Top SchoolDavid Helkowski is a pragmatic founder and software architect with 30+ years of hands-on experience and a proven track record shipping complex systems across startups and enterprises. Based in Tsukuba, Japan, he leads Dry Ark LLC, where he combines low-level systems engineering, reverse engineering, and real-time video/control with modern cloud and device-farm automation using Go, Objective-C, WebRTC and related toolchains. His career spans roles at Snap, T‑Mobile, SUSE and others, delivering scalable device farms, Kubernetes-enabled platforms, high-performance streaming servers, and ECM/automation solutions. A polyglot developer comfortable from embedded C to Python and Kubernetes, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a contrarian, AI-savvy viewpoint—using AI to move fast while happily complaining about it on LinkedIn.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelors, Computer Science and Mathematics at Towson UniversityUMBC
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Github Skills (160)
testing10
windows10
ruby10
automation10
device-farm10
appium10
automation-framework10
webdriver10
test-automation10
debugging10
kubernetes10
go10
libimobiledevice10
android10
macos10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dryark/ujson
Apr 2020 - Aug 2025
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch, 65 tags in 5 years 4 months
dryark/stf_ios_support
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Central repo to connect and document components/repos needed for IOS stf support
Contributions:8 reviews, 31 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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