Dick Davis
Staff Software Engineer at Neighborhood Alerts
Nolensville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDick Davis is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-impact, scalable web applications and infrastructure for both public and private sectors. He blends Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript front-ends with Go-based serverless pipelines, operating at the intersection of product strategy and technical execution to deliver measurable business outcomes. A former Army infantry leader with multiple combat deployments, he brings discipline and operational rigor to system design, performance tuning, and incident-resistant architectures across PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, and Terraform-managed AWS environments. He has a track record of driving growth and reliability—enabling millions of users, delivering zero-downtime upgrades, and architecting event-driven ETL and CI/CD tooling that accelerates teams. Outside of work he maintains a growing anti-library and applies the same habit of deep reading and tinkering to continuous technical improvement.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Information Systems at Austin Peay State UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Lipscomb University
Github Skills (57)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
automation10
api10
ai10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
cli10
n8n9
integrations9
snippet9
youtube9
typescript9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
d3d1rty/dgen
Nov 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 11 months
password-generatorrailsrubypassworddiceware
dickdavis/dickdavis
Aug 2020 - Nov 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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