👤 I'm David Dolph aka David A. Symons.
I love people, problem-solving and engineering. From industry conglomerates in travel (Expedia), connected cars (Toyota), video games (Riot Games), to early-stage FinTech start-ups (Open Banking, Banked), scale-ups (Dream11), and the world’s largest supermarket (Tesco).
Operations, Systems, DevOps, Platform Engineer — Lead, Head, Principal, VP, CTO. I've founded and failed, built and scaled teams from 0→1, and delivered across start-ups, scale-ups, enterprises and multinationals. From data centres to cloud, containers to Kubernetes, kaizen to customers — my focus has always been effective, efficient and excellent engineering.
- 🚀 Scaling companies from Seed ➡️ Series D
- 🤖 Software ate the world — now AI is eating software... and I want to be holding the fork
- 🚶🏼♂️ Today I have walked 787 steps and slept for 6h 46m
- 🏋🏼♂️ My last workout was Other for 52m
- ⚡ Fun fact: I was the Queensland Doom II champion in the 1990's
- 🇦🇺 Made in Australia