Timeline of Experience

May 2021 - Current

Lead Full Stack Engineer at Finity Communications

• Software Development and Architecture

February 2021 - Current

Director at Davis Consulting Services LLC

January 2020 - February 2021

I was employed by ThinkMammoth as a Senior Engineering Manager

• Member of the senior leadership team
• Lead a security team and company SOC2 efforts
• Manage a team of frontend developers

October 2017 - January 2020

I was employed by CollegeNET as a Technical Lead in Applyweb Self Service.

• Lead UI, API and CLI teams focused on providing self service capabilities for ApplyWeb®
• Designed and implemented frontend, backend and DevOPS architecture

I have contributed open source code to Mattermost server, webapp and mobile. I also have created a handful of plugins.

• mattermost-plugin-remind sets reminders for users and channels
• mattermost-plugin-noexif removes EXIF information from images
• mattermost-plugin-watermark adds a hidden steganography in images
• mattermost-plugin-ascii-plot converts plot data in post to ascii charts

November 2016 - June 2017

I was employed by Summit Security Group as a security engineer.

• Produced vulnerability assessments of external and internal systems for clients including code reviews
• Participated in Social Engineering assessments including physical and phishing exercises

December 2015 - September 2016

I was employed as a application security researcher at Rapid7 and worked closely with the development team of AppSpider.

• https://github.com/sdavis-r7
• As a team member, we helped forge Application Security practices, products and services.
• As a developer, I planned, built, and deployed the out-of-band vulnerability callback API “AppSpidered” . I also built the ReactJS scan interface for AppSpider
• As a researcher, I discovered vulnerabilities, wrote exploits, and offered patching to the OpenAPI (Swagger) ecosystem.

May 2013 - December 2015

I was employed by Webtrends.

• As the Engineering Security Team Lead, I provided vulnerability assessments, code review, threat modeling and built automation to augment existing Continuous Integration workflows.
• As a member of the data services team, I was immersed in all layers of our SaaS components and focused development on data query architecture.
• As a member of the application team, I wrote client side and server side components for portfolio applications: account settings, action center, optimize, and streams

November 2012 - May 2013

I worked at a startup named Aspen Labs LLC.

• Furthered development in internationalization and visualization elements in products, while also contributing to the architecture of a continuous integration pipeline.

March 2010 - November 2012

I cofounded Collage Creative aimed at providing custom wordpress solutions, as well provided security services for the organization and customers.

November 2009 - July 2011

I was a projection interaction artist

• Designed projection light systems for interactive experiences at dance shows, festivals, “OMSI After Dark” and after school programs. Designed custom extensions to the ruby based LUZ software
• Spearheaded interactive projection gaming at Really Big Video for first Thursday’s art walk event in the Pearl District. Designed, setup and performed projection stage elements for NikeEM 2011

March 2009 - November 2009

I was a co-founder of Circadia Art Center, wearing many hats.

• Information Services: Network Infrastructure, Surveillance, website, social media
• Business Planning: Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Budget, Web-presence, legal contracts
• Business Management: Event Coordination, Class Scheduling, Alcohol procurement, Tenant relationships

May 2008 - March 2009

Employed at nLight Photonics as a software engineer. I orchestrated the development of kitting algorithms that drove the tiered levels of the diode manufacturing process feeding an ERP system. I worked closely with engineers in design, implementation and execution of the complete laser product creation, assembly, testing and shipping flow.

June 2006 - May 2008

Employed as scientific software engineer and grad student in Computational Geo Ecology.

• Member of an avian migration studies research team.
• Data collection: I developed embedded firmware for avian GPS tracking data loggers and co-built the remote data collection system.
• Mathematical modeling: I created an agent based ecological modeling framework in Matlab, and taught MSc students on its use.
• Visualization: I created and shared as open source, the Google Earth Toolbox.

September 2005 - May 2006

I worked for SAPA Aluminum as a remote contract software engineer. I developed Axapta 3.0 modules for the tracking and analysis of aluminum production facilities.

February 2003 - July 2005

Worked as a senior software engineer at Taiyo Yuden R&D Center of America. I was responsible for establishing tangible products from components and partnerships guided by leadership. I was a member of the IEEE 802.15.4 working group, and built several proof of concepts based on low power wireless sensor networks. Additionally, I wrote firmware and drivers for various projects including keyboards, and wireless network cards.

September 2002 - December 2002

Worked as a part-time instructor at Clark Community College, Fall 2002 quarter

• CSCI 202 Intro to C++
• Programming with SQL Server 2000
• A+ OS Technologies

May 2002

• Graduated from Westminster College with 3.73 GPA
• Bemis, NSF, and Westminster Excellence scholarships

I built a voice controlled lego mindstorms project with two robots that maneuvered around an 8’x10’ board looking for colored cans and moving them to colored squares.

June 2000 - July 2002

Worked at Texscan MSI writing Java, Perl, C and C++

• Built video streaming service for school education
• Developed company website with online purchasing database
• Designed Linux drivers for: Hardware Watchdog, Real-Time Clock