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I build reliable systems for messy workflows.

Director of Engineering at Exodus Intelligence, turning complex operational problems into reliable products across data, automation, and platform engineering.

I lead engineering systems at work and build focused products for family operations, fantasy-football history, and junior-golf planning.

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San Antonio, TX 16+ years across product, platform, data, and operations

Featured projects

Workflow products, built from real operational pressure.

These projects are product nodes in the system map: developer tooling, family operations, league storytelling, and junior-golf scheduling.

Live product

Family Hub

A home-operations app for family calendars, chores, todos, meals, weather, and weekly household workflows.

My focus Product strategy · architecture · full-stack delivery

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League OS

LeagueLore

A fantasy-football league companion for history, rankings, draft prep, and league storytelling.

My focus Product design · data modeling · AI-assisted storytelling

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Utility app

STPGA Scheduler

A junior-golf scheduling tool for tracking events, dates, and planning across STPGA tournament options.

My focus Workflow design · schedule ingestion · planning UX

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Developer platform

Switchyard

A local development command center that unifies project state, runtimes, logs, ports, resources, and agent tools.

My focus Product architecture · systems engineering · cross-platform delivery

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Operating principles

A leadership system for shipping useful software.

For 16+ years, I've worked across financial services, technology organizations, data platforms, compliance-heavy systems, and developer productivity. My favorite work sits at the intersection of architecture, automation, product thinking, and clear execution.

Ship the useful thing.

The best architecture is the one that gets a real workflow unstuck.

Make the system visible.

Logs, dashboards, tests, docs, and observability are part of the product.

Turn chaos into workflows.

A good tool should make the next right action obvious.

Experience

Engineering leadership, grounded in delivery.

Recent leadership and platform work first, with earlier experience available when you want the full path.

Exodus Intelligence

Lakeway, TX (Remote)

Director of Engineering (2025-Present)
Principal Software Engineer (2024-2025)

Engineering leader responsible for strategy, technical vision, team execution, and platform reliability across a Python-focused technology organization.

Promoted to Director of Engineering after serving as a hands-on technical leader across software delivery, infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, and internal platform initiatives.
Defines engineering direction and execution strategy for team priorities, balancing business outcomes, technical debt, delivery risk, system reliability, and long-term scalability.
Leads the engineering team through planning, architecture, implementation, code quality, release readiness, production support, and technical mentorship.
Established GitLab-based engineering KPIs to improve visibility into delivery performance, review effectiveness, pipeline health, deployment flow, and post-release quality.
Drives developer productivity and operational process improvements using GitLab, Docker, HashiCorp Nomad, MinIO/S3, LDAP/TLS, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling.
Partners with technical and business stakeholders to align roadmap priorities, improve delivery predictability, reduce operational risk, and scale engineering practices.

USAA

San Antonio, TX

Software Engineer Lead (2023-2024)
Software Engineer Senior (2020-2023)

Technical lead for bank operations digital delivery, compliance-sensitive workflows, automated testing, documentation, code reviews, and production releases.

Led highly critical issue-management and collections features against compliance deadlines.
Helped deliver one-way outbound collection email workflows across a multi-team initiative.
Led an MVP fraud transaction history UI/API solution for a critical compliance finding, then helped redesign the backend query solution quickly.

VantagePoint / JunglePilot

Independent Software Consultant

Consulted on cloud-agent automation, Python codebases, Kubernetes autoscaling, and one-click customer environment provisioning.

Top-2 GitHub contributor in the ThreatKB Python codebase by InQuest.
Implemented Kubernetes autoscaling for cloud agents based on queue size.
Integrated signup flow with one-click environment provisioning via Helm charts.

Earlier experience and education 2 roles · 1 degree

Netspend / TSYS

Solutions Architect
Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineer II

Technical lead in internal operations across MDM, ETL, data governance, Java services, Kafka, Snowflake, React, and database release automation.

Expanded TIBCO EBX MDM application with custom REST APIs and React UIs.
Spoke at MDM/Data Governance conferences and TIBCO Now.
Drove SDLC standardization and database release automation.

Hewlett-Packard

Product Owner
IT Developer/Engineer

Product owner, ScrumMaster, and lead developer for financial claims and product content systems.

Built automation scripts and Puppet modules for CI server setup.
Co-authored Java API used by HP.com to retrieve product content across locales.
Built .NET, Java, and PL/SQL solutions integrating content and digital assets.

University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

Scientific Computation
Minor: Computer Science

Selected build log

The work beneath the titles.

A compact alternate view of the architecture decisions, compliance saves, automation paths, and product bets that made delivery more predictable.

Scan the stack

git log --author="David Cuellar" --systems

feat(exodus): lead engineering strategy and platform reliability
Direct engineering execution across roadmap delivery, architecture, operational excellence, developer productivity, and release readiness.
feat(hp-content): co-author localized product-content API for HP.com
Helped build the Java API service HP.com used to call and retrieve product content across locales.
fix(usaa-ops): ship compliance-critical bank workflows
Led fraud transaction history, issue-management, and collections delivery across deadline-sensitive bank operations.

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feat(leaguelore): turn fantasy-football history into a product
Built a league companion for records, rankings, draft prep, and the stories that make a league worth remembering.
feat(platform): automate cloud-agent scaling with Kubernetes
Turned cloud-agent demand signals into autoscaling infrastructure using queue-aware delivery patterns.
build(family-hub): ship household operations as software
Designed a home-operations product that makes calendars, chores, todos, meals, and weather easier to coordinate.

Skill matrix

Grouped by how systems actually get built.

The stack is organized by operating area instead of a loose cloud of technologies.

Product Engineering

Product surfaces, APIs, and typed front-end systems.

PythonFastAPIVueReactTypeScriptJava

Platform & Delivery

Delivery pipelines, runtime infrastructure, and release discipline.

GitLabDockerCI/CDHashiCorp NomadMinIO/S3KubernetesHelm

Data & Systems

Operational data, governance, event streams, and durable storage.

PostgreSQLSnowflakeKafkaOracle PL/SQLData GovernanceMDM

Engineering Leadership

Technical clarity, delivery planning, coaching, and quality systems.

Engineering StrategyArchitectureCode ReviewMentorshipDelivery PlanningTesting Strategy

System map

Product thinking across messy real-world workflows.

The connective tissue is the same whether the domain is platform reliability, bank operations, enterprise data movement, cloud automation, local developer tooling, family coordination, fantasy-football history, or junior-golf planning: make the system legible, then make the next action easier.

DavidOS

Data platforms

Automation

Family workflows

Product delivery