Zachary Davison

Engineering Manager

Berlin, Germany

About

I’m an engineer with 14 years of experience (9 in leadership) across a wide range of projects (platform, full-stack, mobile, medical devices, theater installations, many more).

I specialize in platform engineering and developer experience, building tooling, frameworks, and cloud platforms to enable developers to deliver higher quality software at scale, faster.

I like solving sociotechnical problems, building systems to solve development pain-points in teams of engineers, with a path-of-least-resistance philosophy.

I work globally with many languages and cultures, residing in Berlin since 2016.

Lately I’m working on tooling, platforms, and libraries to enable AI, most of which are open source. use-ai, boilerhouse, kadai, deer.

I’m also very interested in specification languages like Quint and it’s predecessor, TLA+.

I also run Little Tone Records, make music as George Earnest / G.E.O Corp, play in The Berlin Jazz Workshop, and host a monthly radio show about jazz.

Work

Platform Engineering Manager

MeetsMore Inc. — Tokyo, Japan (remote)

06.2021 - Present
4 years, 10 months
Leadership TypeScript AWS Kubernetes AI

Principal Engineer

Bluebridge Technologies — Dublin, Ireland / Berlin, Germany (remote)

03.2016 - 03.2021
5 years
  • Hired & led software team.
  • Building software solutions for the largest medical device orgs (Medtronic, Novartis)
  • Designed IEC-62304 compliant SDLC with automated traceability based on modern developer tooling.
  • Clinical trial opthalmology at-home vision test software (FocalView).
  • Android diabetes glucose sensor app (Minimed).
  • Desertside oil pipeline quality inspection through GPU shader based visualization of light refraction (ARAMCO).
  • Re-usable medically complaint software module framework for medical devices.
Leadership Medical Devices Clinical Trials Systems Engineering Regulated Software Development IEC-62304

Lead Mobile Engineer

Fresco — Dublin, Ireland / San Francisco, U.S.A

10.2013 - 10.2015
2 years
Mobile Swift BLE Hardware

Other Experience

Various — Dublin, Ireland

09.2011 - 03.2013
1 year, 6 months
Theater Lecturing
Education

Computer Science BSc.

Dublin, Ireland

2007-2011
1st Class Honors
Projects

Boilerhouse

Turnkey container orchestrator for running fleets of AI agents.

Deer

A simple, unopinionated TUI and secure sandbox for running unattended coding agents.

Kadai

Drop in CLI for your repo scripts, with AI-discoverability baked in.

Matador

A batteries-included event system with lots of edge-cases covered for you. Powers millions of events per day @ meetsmore.com

pubz

Extremely easy to use npm publishing with all the normal conventions built in.