David Smith

About David Smith

I’ve spent my career building software platforms at different stages of growth. One pattern is consistent: teams lose momentum rebuilding foundational infrastructure before they can focus on differentiated product work.What starts as “just what we need” becomes multi-tenancy retrofits, billing rewrites, permission refactors, observability gaps, and eventually a structural rebuild. Over three years, most teams quietly spend $315K–$860K+ recreating infrastructure that doesn’t differentiate their business — plus a 20–30% annual maintenance allocation.Engineering11 exists to eliminate that cycle.We provide a production-grade Full-Stack Foundation that is operational on day one — Authentication and user experience, registration and provisioning, user and tenant management, product and monetization systems, communication workflows, content and data services, analytics, and governance — fully integrated across backend services, frontend applications, and cloud infrastructure.AI tools accelerate code generation. They do not replace architectural judgment. Multi-tenancy, identity boundaries, event-driven workflows, security hardening, and long-term scalability are system design decisions, not prompt outputs. AI amplifies a coherent foundation. It cannot reliably invent one.If you’re building or modernizing a platform and want your foundation to increase velocity rather than constrain it, I’m always open to thoughtful conversations about architecture and long-term cost structure.https://docs.engineering11.com

Experience

1. Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder

   Engineering11

   Jan 2020 — Present · Dallas, TX, US

   Lead all aspects of product development and operations for Engineering11 - the software infrastructure layer powering the next generation of software. Engineering11 delivers a fully deployable, enterprise-grade foundation, built by engineers for engineers, designed to power scalable platforms and support integrated AI workloads.Also serve as CTO for Cnect (via E11):Lead all aspects of product development and platform operations for a large-scale hiring platform built on the Engineering11 stack. Cnect is the AI Hiring Engine Powering Enterprises, Resellers & Staffing Companies.

Education

• Washtenaw Community College

  Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science

• Cleary University

  Bachelor's degree, Business

Skills

• Customer Service
• Soa
• Healthcare
• Hipaa
• Program Management
• Research
• Microsoft Office
• Project Management
• Sql
• Visio
• Strategic Planning
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Software Development
• Requirements Analysis
• Leadership
• Database Design
• Sdlc
• Databases
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Agile Methodologies