Dave Sayles
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SeniorDavid Sayles is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience delivering scalable systems, currently serving as Senior Lead Engineer and Director of Engineering at MongoDB in the New York metro area. He blends hands-on backend expertise with strategic product leadership, having steered initiatives like MongoDB's Access Management Web Application and driven improvements in tooling, CI/CD, and observability through Prometheus, dashboards, and alerting. At Neverware, he grew the engineering team from 3 to 7 engineers, led the pivot to a newer product line, and partnered with product leadership to define roadmaps and releases. His early work spans embedded and virtualization platforms (MakerBot) to modern cloud-native services, giving him a broad end-to-end delivery perspective. An international-minded technologist, he holds a BS in Computer Science and Digital Art from Union College and studied Japanese language at Kansai Gaikokugo University, reflecting a cross-cultural approach to collaboration. Based in the NYC area, he consistently turns complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions while elevating developer quality of life across teams.
13 years of coding experience
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