DAVID
GARWIN

Designing and implementing security, privacy and regulatory compliance solutions, collaborating with dozens of teams across the entire company. Lead backend engineer for Age Assurance, which gates more than 10% of global traffic. Implemented the Data Deletion Compliance Platform, which orchestrates, audits, and logs millions of deletion operations per day.

Worked on the Transit Gateway control plane team. Developed APIs and async jobs for feature launches including Cloud WAN, TGW Connect, IGMP multicast, and TGW flow logs. Optimized the real-time traffic validation infrastructure for TGW Cross-Region Peering, saving up to $2M a year in infrastructure cost.

Explored health data and designed both the software architecture and the machine learning models.

Developed backend and frontend features for the Lifion platform's custom version control system.

Designed, developed, and maintained software architecture. Managed the team, planned projects, and created development standards.

Explored health data, built data collection tooling, and designed machine learning models.

I mentor and coach software engineers one-on-one — career growth, interview preparation, and system design. Ranked in the top 9% of mentors on MentorCruise.

Started a company working out of Horizons Juvenile Detention, teaching incarcerated youth to code.

Taught HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with a team of co-teachers, adapting lesson plans and writing personalized improvement plans for students.

New York University, 2015