# David Chambers

> Software Engineer at Honor

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davidchambers

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Honor
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineering Manager @ Ally
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Led a team of full-stack developers and fostered collaboration and cohesion among team members.  Collaborated closely with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders to orchestrate the launch of a new product.
- Led an API Platform team, responsible for overseeing the API Gateway infrastructure and cross-cutting concerns to protect, secure, and observe our enterprise APIs.  We optimized this component to provide self-service to our internal customers so that they could focus on achieving their product goals.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Ally
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Developed a reusable module to enable canary deployment of APIs, with comprehensive documentation that allowed teams to instrument several production APIs with the capability.  This resulted in lower-risk releases of new and existing features with automated rollback support.
- Led a cross-functional full-stack team in developing a greenfield project, encompassing a React Native mobile app, a React web app, and Node.js APIs utilizing TypeScript as the programming language.  I steered the development lifecycle and provided hands-on technical guidance to ensure a successful launch of the product to Ally customers.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ally
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Led development of customer facing APIs, enabling Ally to deliver essential financial services to its account holders.
- Created coding standards to streamline development processes and ensure code quality, while also mentoring developers new to TypeScript and Node.js.
- Pioneered the development of a centralized logging and distributed tracing library in Node.js.  This provided a standardized solution for microservices across the organization to improve observability and debugging capabilities.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Passport
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
– Developed public facing APIs using Node.js to provide parking enforcement services to application developers.
- Implemented event driven serverless applications to ingest large volumes of parking transactions using AWS managed services, such as Lambda, SQS, and SNS.
- Became a subject matter expert for 3rd party parking session integrations and provided monitoring solutions to proactively respond to application and integration issues

### Software Engineer @ Passport
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Charlotte, North Carolina
– Initiated migration from a legacy GWT web application to use React and Redux.
– Researched, presented, and documented best practices for unit testing React UI components to ensure a quality code-base and reduce regression bugs.
- Developed APIs using Node.js to facilitate a monolith to microservice architecture transition

### Geospatial Software Developer @ Patrick Engineering
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Charlotte, North Carolina
- Developed mobile work and asset management applications to interface with ArcGIS Enterprise and IBM Maximo systems for a large utility company.
- Provided Agile and Scrum technical leadership, improved communication and innovative software solutions for teams.
- Leveraged C# and the .NET platform to develop UWP applications in a MVVM architecture with SOLID design principles.
- Developed REST APIs using ASP.NET Core.

### Support Analyst @ Esri
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Charlotte, North Carolina
– Provided troubleshooting and consultative support for Esri’s customers who used .NET and Java Runtime SDKs and the JavaScript Web API.
– Strong ability to describe highly technical workflows to ensure rapid adoption and successful use of Esri’s software development tools.
– Developed technical writing skills to document software enhancements, defects, and knowledge based articles.
- Provided technical guidance, documentation samples, and debugging for custom geoprocessing tools and services created with Python and ArcPy.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Geography
University of Mary Washington
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science with a Concentration in GIS
University of Mary Washington
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-chambers-6616025b

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Last updated: 2026-03-22