# David Egbert > Technical Lead (Python | React/TypeScript | AWS) Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/davidegbert Lead Full Stack Engineer with a proven record of building scalable, cloud-native applications from concept to production. Experienced in owning technical direction for cross-functional teams, defining engineering best practices, and shipping high-impact products for healthtech and fintech startups from seed stage to IPO. Passionate about balancing speed, quality, and user-centric design. Stack: Python, React/TypeScript, SQL (PostgreSQL), Docker, GitHub Actions, Pulumi IaC, AWS ## Work Experience ### Lead Software Engineer @ Zivian Health Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | Cleveland, OH - Owned the end-to-end delivery of the company’s compliance monitoring app, acting as both lead engineer and de facto product manager from concept through production launch. - Designed and implemented the full technical foundation for the new frontend application (React/TypeScript, Material UI, React Testing Library) and extended the core Python (Django Rest Framework) APIs. - Established team-wide engineering practices including integration testing, code review standards, and the use of feature flags. ### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ Gun.io Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Cleveland, Ohio, United States - Designed and built an AI-powered search service using OpenAI, LangChain, and OpenSearch that reduced time to see candidates from 7-10 days of emails and meetings with the sales team to a five-minute, self-serve experience. - Improved our internal Freelancer Search functionality by creating an ETL process that populated an OpenSearch database. This unlocked the ability to do complicated searches across semi-structured data from sources like the freelancer’s work history. - Reduced GitHub Actions CI pipeline time from 20 minutes to 4 minutes. - Partnered with the new VP of Engineering and key new hires to reshape product and engineering into a collaborative and agile cross-functional team that balanced rapid delivery of impactful features with maintaining quality and reliability. ### Technical Lead @ NeuroNav Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Cleveland, Ohio, United States - Built a full stack application from 0 to 1 using cloud-native, HIPAA-compliant architecture provisioned via infrastructure as code. - Conducted customer discovery activities with internal and external stakeholders to map the user journey and identify opportunities where I could build software to solve the biggest pain points. - Defined and implemented product and engineering strategy to achieve the company’s goals. Acted as de facto CTO and CPO as the first and only full-time product and engineering hire. - Led informational sessions on product and engineering topics to help the rest of the company learn more about iterative, early-stage software development. Python (FastAPI), React/TypeScript, AWS (Serverless Architecture - Lambda, APIGateway, Aurora PostgreSQL), Docker, CircleCI, Pulum ### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - Data Science Team @ 98point6 Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Cleveland, Ohio, United States - Built the API, demo app, and infrastructure for 3 experimental ML applications. - Shortened time from experiment to production deployment from 6–12 months to 1–2 months. - Migrated a mission-critical ML-powered chatbot application to AWS with zero downtime and reduced infrastructure costs by over 50% while increasing application performance. Python, React, TypeScript, AWS (CDK, Lambda, APIGateway), Docker, Jenkins ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ REPAY - Realtime Electronic Payments Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Cleveland, Ohio, United States - Co-developed a process to ensure deployments did not impact customers ability to process payments. - Collaborated with the team to enhance our engineering practices through rigorous code reviews, integration testing on all new code, standardized bug fixing practices, and centralizing documentation. - Technologies Used: Python, React, Redux, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, AWS, Docker ### Software Engineer @ OnShift Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area - Built full-stack features on a cross-functional, agile team - Co-developed a feature that loaded data into an ElasticSearch cluster to enable analytics that empowered customers to fix inefficient staffing practices. - Technologies Used: Python, React, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, PostgreSQL, AWS, Jenkins, Docker ### Solutions Analyst @ IBM Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area - Built a data exploration application with an automated ETL pipeline that shortened customer onboarding time by ~3 months - Proposed, designed, developed, and launched an internal application to empower our sales team to monitor trial customers’ application usage patterns and close more deals by proactively reaching out to them. -Technologies Used: Python, Kafka, logstash, Elasticsearch, JQuery, SQL, Vertica, Docker, Jenkins, Hadoop/HDFS ### Freelance Web Developer @ Self-Employed Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area Website development for small businesses and non-profits. Project management, requirements gathering, content development, marketing, and data analysis - Website for local Cleveland restaurant featuring rich media and friendly user experience. www.luxecleveland.com - Website for local Cleveland non-profit: www.clevelandrocksppf.org - Maintained and optimized website for Cleveland music venue and restaurant: www.beachlandballroom.com ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in History The Ohio State University ### Master’s Degree in Special Education and Teaching St. John's University ### 20 credit hours of post-master’s study in Education policy, Pedagogy, and Statistics Cleveland State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dmegbert --- Source: https://flows.cv/davidegbert JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidegbert/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29