David Hwu
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDavid Hwu is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of formal experience building and scaling backend, platform, and edge services across startups and large enterprises. He blends hands-on Python and distributed systems expertise with servant-leadership principles—growing teams rapidly, instituting agile practices, and championing transparency, respect, and accountability. At Equinix he helped spin up a product research and incubation group, launched Edge Precision Time and advanced Edge Metal to alpha, while defining practical engineering standards like correlation IDs and Python/Golang code review norms. His career spans deep platform work (cloud, PAAS/SAAS, OpenStack, ETL, REST APIs) and client development (iOS, Windows, Mac), and includes a granted patent for a location-aware client/server application. Known for pragmatic engineering (YAGNI, PEP20) and mentoring by Shu-ha-ri, he reliably converts complex requirements into operational, scalable products. Based in California, he pairs creative problem solving (former professional photographer) with disciplined product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese, c++, javascript, python, java, assembler, English
Github Skills (42)
python9
http9
python-requests9
flask9
private-cloud8
micro-framework8
provisioning8
wsgi8
bare-metal8
werkzeug7
social-auth7
syntax7
metadata7
oauth7
web-framework7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
octerra/encodingcom
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Python 3 wrapper for Encoding.com api
Contributions:52 pushes in 3 months
python
bitcasa/sendwithus_py2
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 3 comments in 24 days
apisendwithuspythonpython3rest
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