David Shoots
Hollis, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Shoots is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with nearly 30 years of product delivery experience, currently leading Metrika after senior engineering roles at Coinbase, Algorand, and Microsoft. He transitioned from building CAD/CAM/CNC applications to developer tooling and blockchain infrastructure, blending deep systems knowledge with a passion for empowering developer productivity. Comfortable as a solo contributor or leading small teams of 10–20, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic R&D and hosting expertise. Based in Hollis, New Hampshire, he brings an uncommon mix of legacy systems craftsmanship and modern blockchain operations experience that helps startups and established teams ship reliable infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (30)
extraction10
algorand10
go10
calculator9
collector9
ethereum9
bytecode8
instrumentation8
proxy8
monitoring8
entity8
observability7
prometheus7
compiler6
smart-contracts6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Karmastic/go-algorand
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Algorand's official implementation in Go.
Contributions:42 pushes, 21 branches, 1 tag in 4 months
golangblockchainalgorand
Karmastic/Launcher
Sep 2024 - Jan 2026
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 17 comments in 1 year 4 months
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