# Davis Hesler

> Exploring opportunities for early stage startups

Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davishesler

Experienced in software architecture design and implementation, react front end development, object oriented programming and leading agile teams.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Facet
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Lead a small team of developers to implement improvements to our financial simulation engine
• Lead frequent discussions on improvements to back-end architecture patterns, database design, product engineering, and general experience improvements
• Architected and implemented a rule engine to calculate recurrence in financial transactions to predict 
spending patterns and future balances
• Co-architected and implemented a messaging system that borrowed ideas from Slack, Facebook Messenger, and Facebook Feed
• Improved test, build, and deployment processes by standardizing & optimizing pipelines, replacing aging build tools with leading edge build tools (esbuild), and creating an online database migration process to allow more frequent merges and deployments

### Full Stack Engineer @ Facet
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States

### Software Engineer @ T. Rowe Price
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Software engineer responsible for porting legacy on-prem applications into AWS based
microservices.
Scrum Master responsible for implementing an agile process into our existing workflow.

### Software Engineer @ The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Baltimore, Maryland Area
Project Lead for a development team designing a portable web architecture for use in real-time data analysis tools. This framework is currently being leveraged in multiple sectors and across multiple programs.

Lead Software Engineer for the design and creation of a web based analysis tool that provided the user the customization and story telling of their analysis. This software product levered a custom backend that allowed the software to have persistent states without the use of a server backend.

Designed and integrated medium and low fidelity physics models into an event driven M&S architecture.

Researched and modeled future UAV capabilities for use in surveillance missions.

### Controls Student Researcher @ Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mississippi State, MS
Lead controls engineer responsible for design and implementation of sensors, controllers, and algorithms to retrofit a vehicle for autonomous capabilities.

### Application Security Intern @ International Paper
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Memphis, TN
Tasked with drafting functional specifications to improve task workflow and create a rich user experience. Worked with business partners and developers to design and implement applications to meet functional specification requirements.

### IT Technician @ Mississippi State University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Provided desktop support and ID card access to housing faculty and students. Troubleshooted and resolved complex technology problems in the field along with imaging of computer disks in the office.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Software Engineering
Mississippi State University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davishesler

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Last updated: 2026-03-23