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Experience
David Energy
Staff Software Engineer · Remote
First full-time engineering hire at a seed-stage energy startup. Built foundational systems and engineering culture supporting growth through Series B. Led the residential product team — shipped a >2 MW battery Virtual Power Plant, EV smart charging, and serverless infrastructure on AWS.
2021 — PresentCELI
Fellow, 2023 Bay Area Cohort · Bay Area
Selected for the Clean Energy Leadership Institute fellowship — connecting emerging leaders across utilities, policy, and technology in the clean energy sector.
2023MindMeld / Cisco
Software Engineer → Principal Engineer → Tech Lead · San Francisco Bay Area
Joined MindMeld to build a conversational AI framework before LLMs were a thing. Led development of the core NLP platform, shipped Fortune 500 voice interfaces, and open-sourced the MindMeld framework. Cisco acquired the company in 2017 — continued as Tech Lead on a team of 4, building Webex Assistant for Rooms (deployed to thousands of enterprise conference rooms).
2014 — 2021Various
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Early career across startups — iOS at Clinkle, video playback at Ooyala, research informatics at Intermolecular.
2010 — 2014Stanford University
B.S. Energy Resources Engineering · Minor, Computer Science · Class of 2010
Track & Field Student-Athlete