David Stockton introduces himself as Directus' new VP of Engineering, sharing his journey from childhood programming on a Commodore 64 through a 25-year career in software engineering and leadership roles. Most recently Director of Cloud Infrastructure Engineering at Confluent, he managed globally distributed teams overseeing thousands of Kubernetes clusters. He joined Directus for the team and opportunity to contribute to their API-first data platform, which he sees as well-positioned for AI-driven development needs.
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