Senior Analyst
David leads clients with a particular emphasis on business-first design principles and how application architectures such as APIs foster innovation and sustainable business flexibility. His research focuses on architectural topics such as integration, API strategy and management, event-driven architecture, and microservices.
David has extensive experience with IT architecture. At Progressive Insurance, he led successful efforts to modernize the company’s decades-old policy servicing system and led its technical strategy for APIs, integration, and event streaming. His IT experience also includes technology leadership, software design and development, and cofounding a successful online game business.
David received a Bachelor of Applied Science, summa cum laude, in systems analysis with a minor in mathematics from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
The growth of distributed application architecture hits a brick wall when only using synchronous APIs for integration due to fragility and scalability...
17 min readIn Forrester's 40-criterion evaluation of function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms, we identified the nine most significant ones — Alibaba, Amazon, Google...
13 min readAs data continues to grow in value, it is vital that businesses unsilo their data. Rapid growth, the pivot to public cloud, and M&A make data integration...
7 min readExcellence in customer experience and business operations is often a matter of timing, and proactive timing is a matter for events. Software-based event-driven...
7 min readFrom simple internal flows between parts of a microservice app to major B2B transactions worth millions, APIs serve a huge range of scenarios, users, and...
20 min readWebinar: Improve Agility And Business Innovation With Event-Driven Architecture