David Cameron

About David Cameron

A software, data, and security enthusiast with diverse experience through anti-fraud operations, product delivery and varied consulting engagements. Experience with data science, analysis and engineering, mobile development, asynchronous backends, artifact builds and hardware integration in Python, go, Java, and Scala. Interest in fraud and abuse, application availability, and performance issues.

Experience

1. Senior Staff Security Data Scientist

   DigitalOcean

   Mar 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US

   During this period, existing processes were standardized towards company-wide standards.Following a company-wide initiative, the monthly fraud and abuse meeting series evolved to a document-centric format. Each month, I prepared a few pages, including consistent metrics tracked month over month, describing current issues and initiatives related to fraud and abuse. We would then meet, take written questions on the document, and record them back. This provided more focused content and allowed for more interaction and discussion.As a new dbt-based data platform was released to inernal teams, I moved our existing transformations on to the platform. Some transformations were already in a Security specific dbt project, while others were moving from ad-hoc tools in to purpose-built models in the shared dbt.A push for higher reliability prompted us to reconsider our metrics and alerting. I contributed to efforts to move more alerting and charting to feed from structured log lines through DigitalOcean\'s existing elasticsearch logging pipeline.

Education

• The University of British Columbia

  BSc, Cognitive Systems

  1998 — 2005