Todd Davis

Contact

Email: todd@toddjdavis.com
Website: https://ToddJDavis.com

gitconnected: https://gitconnected.com/tjdavis3
GitHub: https://github.com/tjdavis3
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davistodd

Summary

Todd Davis has been in IT for over two decades. His experience covers all facets of technology including data center layout and management, systems administration, configuration management, programming, and management of both administrators and developers. As a programmer he’s used a variety of languages such as Java, Javascript, Python, C, PHP, Golang, and even COBOL. These days when he writes code it is typically Go or shell scripts.

Todd has excelled at designing systems, procedures, and documentation for a variety of systems, development environments, and software architectures.

Aside from technology work, Todd extensive experience in disaster preparedness and response as a volunteer fireman, a former paramedic, and a current CERT volunteer. He and his wife have four children and five grandchildren. He lives in Texas with his wife of 30+ years. Together they enjoy traveling and running.

Experience

Magna5 (acquired by RingSquared), Director of Platform Development

Jun 2019 - present

• Designed a circuit inventory tracking system
  • Automatically updated revenue amounts from billing system
  • Automatically updated cost amounts from electronic vendor invoices
  • Facilitated the identification of significant cost increases and missed disconnects, allowing the company to adjust and realize significant savings.
• Designed a distributed, event-driven CDR retrieval and archival system
  • cloud-based system allowing 7 years of retained CDR
  • Allowed support personnel to query call details in near real-time.
• Built various smaller automation systems and APIs
• Documented new and existing software architectures
• Coordinated offshore and domestic development teams
• Implemented devops procedures and observability platforms

Teliax, Inc. , Director Of Software Development

Aug 2017 - Jun 2019

Led the development and systems operations teams in the re-engineering of infrastructure and systems. Facilitated communications and development processes with offshore developers and managed the development roadmap.

• Designed highly available systems and infrastructure.

• Implemented a microservices architecture along with continuous integration (CI) and automated deployment

• Implemented policies, procedures, and tooling to enable the development team to take on agile processes to increase productivity and decrease system issues.

ANPI / Onvoy, Director of Systems Operations

Feb 2005 - Feb 2017

Responsible for managing the corporate computing infrastructure covering 3 data centers and 6 offices. Coordinated a team of motivated professionals to support the company’s employees and the computing environment the use.

• After a corporate merger, led the integration of corporate systems into a single cohesive system with no outages.

• Built out a corporate PBX using open source Asterisk platform with typical enterprise features and an automatically generated set of systems documentation based on the configuration.

• Implemented open source systems to monitor the state of the network and systems to provide visibility and alerting.

• Created systems to handle inventory and archiving.

• Built automation around user management, systems deployment and configuration to take provisioning from days to under an hour.

• Implemented a fully-redundant split-horizon DNS system.

• Designed a centralized logging and authentication system.

Skills

Volunteer

I’ve volunteered with several organizations over the years. Some of these are included below.

Denton County CERT, Member

Mar 2023 - present

New Holland Fire Department, Firefighter

Mar 1995 - Jun 2019

MABAS 51 Dive Team, Diver

Mar 2013 - Jun 2019