Summary
David Janke is an engineering leader and consultant with over a decade of experience designing scalable, high-performance systems and modernizing legacy architectures for businesses. He spent four years at Amazon building privacy-compliant data pipelines and customer-facing solutions using Java, Scala, Python, Spark and AWS services, and has led product engineering efforts across C#, .NET, microservices and SQL ecosystems. Now running Trailhead Software LLC, he helps organizations align engineering with business goals to accelerate growth while still contributing hands-on to implementation and cloud migrations. His background combines deep systems and data expertise—reinforced by a recent Master's in Data Science—with practical experience in operational tooling like build/release pipelines and testing frameworks. Based in Hampton Roads, VA, he also serves his community as an EMT, reflecting a readiness to lead under pressure outside the office. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical strategist who pairs architecture-level vision with the willingness to dive into code when it matters.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University
Master's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at University of Colorado Boulder