David Irvine
CTO at Drive Ninja
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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SeniorDavid Irvine is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of formal experience building and operating large-scale, production-critical systems across HPC, cloud-native services, and digital marketplaces. He grew from tinkering with heterogeneous Beowulf clusters into designing Top500-class HPC installations, and now leads product and platform engineering for bank-embedded automotive marketplaces and earlier consumer platforms. His strengths span bare-metal provisioning at scale, automated configuration and patching, intelligent monitoring and proactive fault management, and performance tuning of complex software stacks. He has hands-on full-stack experience (React/React Native, Python/Django, serverless AWS) and a track record of turning pre-seed concepts into industry-first products. Unusually for a CTO, he stepped away in 2013 to undertake multi-month solo wilderness and high-altitude expeditions and earned an RYA Yachtmaster Offshore certification, bringing proven resilience and risk management to high-pressure technical delivery. Based in Dubai, he seeks roles that combine technical depth, large-scale complexity, and a culture that demands continual improvement.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (18)
visualization9
windows9
owl-carousel9
aws-cloudformation9
arduino8
elm8
python7
troposphere6
django-middleware5
django5
translation4
django-models4
gateway3
react3
python-modules2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
irvined1982/lavaflow
Jan 2013 - Dec 2014
Cluster usage reporting and visualization tool supporting openLava, LSF, and Windows Compute Cluster
Contributions:868 commits in 1 year 11 months
visualizationwindows
irvined1982/openlava-python
Oct 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:83 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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