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David Williams

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Chief Technology Officer at Massdriver (YC W22)
📍 Los Angeles, California, United States

David Williams is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Massdriver (YC W22), where he focuses on improving cloud infrastructure management. He has a strong background in Site Reliability Engineering from roles at LaunchDarkly and Lattice. He uniquely holds a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts.

David began his career in a highly creative and technical role as a consultant for visual artists. He was responsible for software engineering and embedded systems programming to build interactive sculptures, blending his passion for art and technology. This background informs his socio-technical approach to DevOps.

Unique fact: He started his software engineering career by building interactive art installations for visual artists.

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Experience
4 Years
Current Role
Chief Technology Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Human-centric DevOps
Believes DevOps is a socio-technical discipline and that focusing on human relationships is the key to successful adoption.
Platform Engineering
Actively discusses moving beyond traditional GitOps to create automated, self-service platforms that increase developer productivity and engineering velocity.
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Career

Work history

Chief Technology Officer
Massdriver (YC W22)
4-2025
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
LaunchDarkly
1-2021 - 2-2022
Site Reliability Engineer
Lattice
5-2020 - 1-2021
Staff Software Engineer
The RealReal
8-2018 - 3-2020
Engineering Manager
The Bouqs Company
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Education
9-2009 - 5-2011
Master of Fine Arts - MFA
California Institute of the Arts
9-2004 - 5-2008
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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