About

David Sobeck is a highly experienced Principal Engineer at Quixey with over 30 years of experience in software development. He has worked on a wide range of projects in diverse domains including BioInformatics, Internet Telephony, and Image Processing. David has a strong background in Java (server and client), Apache Spark, YARN, Lisp, SQL, and REST. He has extensive experience in optimizing databases and client connections to achieve massive scaling. David has pursued platform-neutral implementations using open source or published protocols. David's specialties include high-performance server-side Java, symbolic representation, object-relational mapping, and platform-neutral solutions with published specs. He is also proficient in Linux, Apache, and AWS. At Quixey, David has implemented a proxy pool to accelerate web crawling using Python. He has also designed a rule-driven state machine for an extensible architecture and applied for a patent. David has created a robust and secure sync mechanism using a proxy pool to reliably transfer data across the Great Firewall. He has also implemented a REST endpoint for platform-neutral cluster job control with Spark back end. David has worked at several other companies, including Sun Microsystems and Afferent Corporation. At Sun Microsystems, he was a Core Software Engineer for Honeycomb, where he designed platform-neutral HTTP access to a massively scaling, searchable object store and implemented a C client API and an NDMP server using code generated from XDR spec. At Afferent Corporation, David was a Software Engineer who participated in the port of ISIS Draw to the Microsoft .Net framework and optimized network object-relational mapping for network latency. David has a Bachelor's degree from the University of California and attended Davis Senior High School. His technical skills include Java, AWS, Spark, SQL, Image Processing, Web, Backend, Software Engineer, test, and Integration. With his extensive experience and expertise, David Sobeck is a valuable asset to any software development team.