I’m a staff software engineer based in Atlanta, working remotely since 2009. I build distributed backend systems and take tired monoliths apart. At SpiderCloud (now Airspan, via Corning) I led the microservices rewrite of a telecom network management system: Spring Boot, Kubernetes, and custom HA failover across tens of thousands of nodes. Since 2009 I’ve also been the entire engineering team behind a cell-site maintenance platform for Mastec. On my own time I run SuperDaveLab, where I ship four local-first desktop and Android apps.
TL;DR
I take tired monoliths and turn them into maintainable, observable, microservice-based platforms. I’m happiest when I’m the bridge between legacy systems, new architecture, and the people trying to ship real features.
I’m available now, in one of three ways. Whichever it is, the work is remote. I’ve worked that way since 2009, and today my teams are spread across the US, Canada, Europe and India, so whatever time zone you’re in works.
01 · Full-time
Backend, platform or technical-lead roles where there’s real ownership: distributed systems, legacy modernization, high availability, and getting a team shipping.
02 · Freelance
Inherited a codebase nobody fully understands? That’s been my day job since 2009. I take over, stabilise, speed up, and extend existing systems without stopping the business that runs on them.
03 · Freelance
I design, build and ship whole products on my own, including the unglamorous parts: installers, code signing, release pipelines, and the website.
The longer story behind the work: what the problem was, what I decided, and why.
Java · Spring Boot · Kubernetes · HA
A decade-old JAX-RS/Jetty NMS decomposed into Spring Boot services on Kubernetes. It now ships as the Airspan Management System (AMS) and is being adopted by tier-1 carriers, major automakers and large enterprises.
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C# · SQL Server · React PWA · Flutter
The system that dispatches, tracks and bills cell-tower maintenance across the eastern US. Its Web Forms UI is being replaced by a React PWA built on an API inside the live app.
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Electron · Node · PDF parsing · CI/CD
A commercial desktop product built solo: a versioned parser registry, a review console, a headless CLI, and signed builds for Windows, macOS and Linux.
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Flutter · Android · SQLite · Open source
Ebb and Nexpill keep health data on the phone, with the privacy promise enforced by Android itself, and minute-exact reminders that work without signal.
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SuperDaveLab is my one-person software shop. Each app does its work on the user’s own machine: no accounts, no servers, nothing uploaded. I own every layer of each one — product, architecture, code, licensing, release pipelines, and the marketing sites. The two desktop tools are commercial; the two Android apps are free and GPL-licensed, and the desktop sales pay for them.
Desktop · Electron · Commercial beta
Bank and credit card statement PDFs into clean CSV, XLSX, JSON, and OFX/QFX, with a review console to check every row before export.
Desktop · Electron · TS · Commercial beta
CSV/TSV/XLS/XLSX into a real database. Infers an editable schema, then exports a portable
CREATE TABLE script or imports over a
native connection — SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite — with no ODBC stack to install.
Android · Flutter · SQLite · Open source
A menstrual cycle tracker that keeps your history on your phone. It predicts the next period as a range with its confidence, and schedules reminders on the device.
INTERNET permission — the OS enforces the privacy claim
Android · Flutter · SQLite · Open source
Medication timing for caregivers: what’s due, whether it can be given now, and what was already given — with reminders on the minute, even without signal.
More things I’ve built or led, including freelance work. Open-source work lives on GitHub.
Designed and implemented an HA strategy for microservice clusters with Active/Standby behavior, database replication, election logic, and DNS-based failover. Similar patterns power both lab and production environments.
Built a consumer-facing mobile app for Rooms To Go that delivered monthly furniture coupons directly to customers’ phones. Users could scroll through active offers, tap for detailed info, and quickly see what was valid in their area.
Built an Android tablet app used at GM dealership events to replace manual clipboard signups. Customers entered their own contact details on 13" kiosk-mounted tablets, and staff could later export structured lead lists and run raffles.
An open-source maintenance platform for technicians working remote sites: dynamic ticket templates, site-level metadata, grouped custom fields, visit logging, attachments, and role-based permissions on a Fastify + React/PWA stack.
A fast, local command-line log analyzer: summarizes delimited log files, groups recurring error patterns, and filters by level or time window.
15+ years across telecom, enterprise systems, and full-stack development — remote since 2009.
Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead · Remote
Lead engineer and system owner for the EMS/NMS platform modernization. Owned a full microservices rewrite (Spring Boot, Kubernetes) of the Spidernet EMS, which now ships as the Airspan Management System (AMS) and is being adopted by tier-1 carriers, major automakers and large enterprises to manage their DAS networks. Case study.
Lead Developer & Architect · Sole Engineer · Remote
A one-person dev shop behind their cell-site maintenance platform — the system that dispatches, tracks, and bills tower service across the eastern US. Case study.
Founder & Sole Engineer · Remote
Four local-first apps, each designed, built, released and marketed solo. Details above.
Founder & Lead Engineer · Atlanta, GA
Technical Roles · Atlanta, GA
Either. I’m open to remote full-time staff or senior roles, and to freelance work on existing systems or new builds. Full-time roles need to be fully remote.
Yes, and it’s most of what I’ve done. I’ve kept a production platform running and modernized it for over 15 years, and rebuilt a decade-old Java monolith while it stayed in service. The first step is always the same: understand what it really does, and make it safe to change.
Desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux; Android apps; web apps and PWAs for field crews and back offices; backend services and APIs; and tools that get data out of PDFs and spreadsheets and into a database. I can take one from an idea through signed, installable releases.
No. That’s the rule for my own products, not for client work. Most of my career is servers, databases and Kubernetes. But if your data genuinely has to stay on the user’s device, I’ve shipped that several times and know where the hard parts are.
I’m based in Atlanta, Georgia, but I’m not tied to Eastern time. I’ve worked remotely since 2009, from all over the US, from France, Spain and the Cayman Islands, and for more than a year from Portugal. The teams I work with today are spread across the US, Canada, Europe and India. I can work in, or overlap with, whatever time zone you’re in.
Email david.koons@davekoons.com
with a few lines about the role or the problem, or type hire
in the shell and it’ll draft the email for you.
Hiring for a remote staff or senior role, or have a project that needs an experienced pair of hands? I’d like to hear about it.