David Day
About David Day
David Day is a Senior Data Engineer with extensive experience in data technologies and application development. He has worked at CDL Limited since 2016 and previously held positions at Hewlett-Packard and Lavastorm Analytics.
Work at CDL Software
David Day has been employed at CDL Limited as a Senior Data Engineer since 2016. In this role, he has contributed to various projects, including managing a large-scale migration of Business Intelligence (BI) products from Oracle to PostgreSQL. His responsibilities include developing a replacement module on PostgreSQL to replicate Oracle's Materialized View Fast Refresh. David works within a JIRA agile methodology DevOps team that operates on two-week sprint cycles, focusing on delivering efficient data engineering solutions.
Previous Experience at Hewlett-Packard
David Day worked at Hewlett-Packard in two capacities. From 2006 to 2010, he served as an Oracle Application Developer, followed by a role as an Oracle EBS Developer (Application Support) from 2010 to 2014. Both positions were based in Lytham, Lancashire, where he gained significant experience in application development and support for Oracle systems over a total of eight years.
Experience at Lavastorm Analytics
David held the position of Application Support Consultant at Lavastorm Analytics from 2014 to 2016. During his two years in Warrington, United Kingdom, he provided support for analytics applications, further enhancing his expertise in data management and application support.
Education and Expertise
David Day earned a BA (Hons) in Moving Image Design from The University of Huddersfield, where he studied from 1998 to 2002. His technical expertise encompasses a wide range of technologies, including AWS, Linux, Bash scripting, Git, Python, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Beats, Kibana, Terraform, Docker, and Qlik Replicate. He has experience integrating Elasticsearch and Kibana for alerting setup frameworks and writes test and deploy pipelines using Terraform and Docker.