Summary
Don Walling is a technology leader and founder with a career spanning over four decades delivering scalable, secure cloud-based solutions. As Owner and Co-Founder of Cyas, Inc., he helps clients architect robust digital platforms, implement agile processes, and manage complex programs across global teams. At Adobe, he served as Senior Engineering Manager and Technical Architect for Experience Cloud, leading five scrum teams on Microsoft Azure and driving automation, CI/CD, and architectural evaluations of Spark, Kafka, OpenTSDB, and Druid. He has a proven track record transforming early prototypes into enterprise-grade products, notably rearchitecting Adobe AEM Communities for massive scalability and elasticity and guiding LiveCycle through its lifecycle. Don combines hands-on engineering with servant leadership—mentoring top performers, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and guiding large, distributed teams across Europe, China, India, Russia, and North America. He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University and is based in San Francisco, bringing a rare blend of engineering depth and strategic product delivery to complex, security-focused systems.
11 years of coding experience
41 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Iowa State University