David Norton
Director Of Engineering at InfluxData
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Norton is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years in software and over a decade of deep experience at InfluxData, where he now oversees engineering for InfluxDB across clustered, edge, community, and enterprise products. He combines hands-on backend and database engineering—contributing to core InfluxDB features like user management, auth, meta services, snapshotting, and continuous queries—with proven people leadership as Director of Engineering. Based in Charlotte, he has progressed from senior engineer and tech lead roles into strategic management, running multiple product lines including Telegraf and cloud integrations such as Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB. His background spans large-scale time-series systems and developer-facing tooling, demonstrating both product-minded architecture and low-level systems work. Colleagues rely on him for operational pragmatism and steady delivery of robust, scalable datastore features used broadly in observability and real-time analytics.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Github Skills (15)
timeseries-database10
databases10
authentication10
user-authentication10
time-series10
go10
influxdb10
database-design10
database10
authorization9
bcrypt9
database-administration9
authorizations9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/influxdb
Jun 2014 - Apr 2021
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:142 reviews, 612 commits, 342 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the user management features of the InfluxDB system. Their contributions include implementing improvements to user creation, password authentication, and authorization mechanisms. They also introduced a snapshotter client and made changes to the database's meta services, suggesting an understanding of the system's internal data management. Furthermore, the user worked on continuous query functionality, ensuring that the system accurately handles and processes time-series data queries.
real-time-analyticsscalablereactanalyticsevents
dgnorton/norobo
Dec 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:59 commits, 33 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years
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