David Viramontes

Friend of Alvi’s, senior backend engineer based in Denver. Currently Technical Lead at GroupCollect (Elixir). Down to contribute part-time on Dungeon Books.

Contact

• Phone: 720-273-9747
• Website: https://www.dviramontes.com/
• Discord: daaaved
• GitHub: dviramontes
• LinkedIn: see resume on website

Availability

Tuesdays and Thursdays after 3 PM (works remote, uses that time for side projects)

Background

• ~12 years professional experience, Denver-based
• Current: Technical Lead at GroupCollect (Jun 2024–present, Elixir)
• Previous: Sr. Engineer at Fanatics, Lumanu, Community.com, Handshake; Backend Lead at Choozle; Engineering Manager at ShapeShift
• Primary language: Elixir (Phoenix, LiveView). Also strong in Go, TypeScript
• Backend-leaning, interested in product and hardware
• Interested in the kiosk / Raspberry Pi setup
• Active GitHub: MCP servers, Terraform, distributed systems (ETS/R2), advent-of-code

Why this matters

• Senior backend engineer available for part-time collaboration
• Hardware interest aligns with kiosk/POS work
• Product-minded, not just code — good fit for early-stage project
• Next step: show him around the project on a follow-up call