David Skowronski

Senior Software Engineer — Backend & Distributed Systems

Raleigh, NC · david@dskow.com · LinkedIn

Summary

Senior backend engineer with 26+ years designing, building, and operating distributed systems, event-driven data pipelines, and scalable APIs across telecom, defense, IoT, and AI security. Experienced architecting high-throughput microservices and cloud-native platforms on AWS with Docker and Kubernetes. Fluent across Go, Java, Python, C#, and C++, and quick to ramp on new languages and frameworks with the help of LLMs, code assistants, and agentic automation.

Technical Skills

Languages: Java, Python, Go, C#, C++, Node.js, JavaScript
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, IAM), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, microservices
Data & APIs: REST, event-driven architecture, pub/sub, SQL, NoSQL, high-throughput pipelines, webhooks, OAuth
AI & Automation: GenAI, LLMs, agentic AI systems, AI-augmented development, workflow agents, prompt engineering
Practices: Distributed systems design, performance optimization, resiliency patterns, testing (unit/integration/E2E), observability, Agile/DevOps, secure SDLC

Experience

Senior Software Engineer — Rampart-AI (2024 – Present) Architect and deliver backend services securing AI-powered technologies across AWS and agentic AI systems at an early-stage security startup. Design scalable APIs and distributed microservices that safeguard autonomous agent workflows within defined security boundaries.

Senior Software Engineer — Securboration Inc. (2012 – 2024) Designed and delivered mission-critical distributed backend systems across multiple U.S. military branches under government contract. Built high-throughput data pipelines and event-driven architectures for 24/7 defense operations. Developed a Go-based plugin for an Apache Storm streaming pipeline integrated with semantic web technologies for real-time distributed data enrichment. Mentored engineering peers on reliability, testing, observability, and performance.

Software Engineer — Audigence Inc. (2009 – 2011) Built a data-driven hearing device calibration platform at a health-tech startup, replacing traditional audiogram methods with a phoneme-based response-mismatch approach.

Software Engineer — DataVoice International (2008 – 2009) Developed an early GPS fleet management system with real-time tracking and dispatch serving nearly 2,000 small power cooperatives across the United States. Built event-driven pipelines processing IoT telemetry from thousands of distributed field assets.

Software Developer — Nortel Networks (1998 – 2008) Contributed to backend software for carrier-grade cellular network infrastructure from 2.5G through 4G, serving millions of subscribers globally. Worked on high-availability distributed systems requiring extreme performance optimization and resiliency.

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1998

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