David Zemon
Sr. Firmware Engineer at Tokenize Inc
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Zemon is a senior firmware engineer with 12 years of cross-stack experience, currently leading firmware and Rust-heavy manufacturing tooling for a FIDO2-compliant security device in Marietta, GA. He blends embedded bare-metal work, C++ security modules, and Java microservices with DevOps and CI/CD expertise to deliver production-ready systems and scalable build pipelines. David has a track record of introducing modern tooling (CMake, Conan, Rust) and pragmatic governance to onboard new technologies while knowing when to leverage existing solutions. He’s contributed backend fixes and Okta auth enhancements to the popular Backstage developer portal, reflecting an interest in developer experience and secure identity integration. Comfortable as a lone technical SME for outsourced manufacturing projects, he pairs deep technical ownership with an appetite for building homegrown tools when third-party options fall short.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (20)
back-end-development10
okta10
typescript10
authentication10
user-authentication10
backstage10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
backend10
oauth10
apidoc9
bitbucket9
jwt9
api9
hibernate6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 21 commits, 3 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:David Zemon's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Okta authentication provider within the Backstage platform. He added features for Okta integration, made the auth server ID optional, and implemented JWT claim customization. Furthermore, he fixed an import issue and addressed a bug related to branch retrieval in a Bitbucket integration. His work involved modifications to backend code and configuration files related to authentication and identity management within the Backstage ecosystem.
backstageinfrastructuredxdeveloper-experiencedeveloper-portal
DavidZemon/LearnSpring
Aug 2016 - Jul 2020
Learn Spring, why we use it, and how to use some of its modules: Core, MVC, JDBC
Contributions:26 commits, 72 pushes, 27 branches in 4 years
jdbcmvcspringspring-jdbcspring-mvc
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