Isaac Davis

Staff Software Engineer at Fastly

Isaac Davis has a diverse work experience spanning multiple companies and roles. Isaac began their career as a Programmer/Studio Assistant at Your Heaven Audio, where they debugged code for an embedded-software drum amplification system. Isaac also researched the feasibility of porting the system to a different architecture.

Isaac then worked as a Teaching Assistant at <\u200bIntraCity> Geeks, where they helped increase technology education in under-served communities. Isaac taught programming languages and oversaw assignments in HTML/CSS/JavaScript classes for middle school students.

Next, Isaac served as a Software Engineering Intern at Joyent, contributing to the SmartOS open-source distribution and conducting investigations into scaling virtualized OS containers. Isaac also redesigned and implemented the ID space subsystem in the illumos kernel.

Isaac continued their journey at Brown University as a Teaching Assistant for two years and later became the Head Teaching Assistant for Operating Systems. Isaac achieved a record number of students completing a lab portion of the course.

At Joyent, Isaac returned as a Software Engineer, working on the object storage team and designing a Rust library and ZooKeeper client. Isaac also built metrics/monitoring services for the Joyent Triton cloud management platform.

Currently, Isaac is employed at Fastly as a Staff Software Engineer. Prior to this role, they held positions as a Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer at the company.

Overall, Isaac's work experience showcases their strong technical skills and ability to contribute to various projects and teams.

Isaac Davis attended Brown University from 2014 to 2018, where they pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.

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Timeline

  • Staff Software Engineer

    March, 2023 - present

  • Senior Software Engineer

    October, 2021

  • Software Engineer

    October, 2020