David J Felix

I deeply enjoy startups. I'm currently at Brain-CA Technologies (seed stage); before that, Era Software (Series A, acquired by ServiceNow and folded into Lightstep) and earlier, VNDLY (Series B, acquired by Workday). I've also founded a couple of my own — NullServe and Pepperonio (AngelHack Cincinnati 2014 winner).

I graduated from the University of Dayton College of Engineering with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. My interests sit around serverless, DevOps, and cloud-first infrastructure.

Companies

Brain-CA Technologies · 2024–present

Seed-stage AI hardware company building power-efficient inference chips and learning algorithms. I work across AI research, MLOps, hardware engineering, and team management.

Era Software → ServiceNow Cloud Observability (Lightstep) · 2022–2024

Joined Era Software (Series A) as a full-stack engineer; continued through the ServiceNow acquisition, working on observability and application log management.

VNDLY · 2020–2022

Series B. Full-stack engineer. Acquired by Workday.

Founded

NullServe · 2019–present

Company built around leveraging SaaS and serverless platforms as a hosting and scalable execution engine. Delivered custom serverless video pipelines and a web app hosting setup. Still active in a limited capacity.

Pepperonio · 2014–2015 (closed)

Co-founded. "Ice cream truck for pizza" — an app that sold hot-and-ready pizzas in real time from trucks routed to high-demand locations. AngelHack Cincinnati 2014 winner.

Projects

Serverless Compose

Onion-style middleware framework for Node on AWS Lambda. Minimal core, extensible by composition.

MG4.tv / iotv

Live-streaming utilities aimed at richer interactions around video content.

• Atumsoft — Advisor / Mentor
• AngelHack Cincinnati 2015, 2016 — Local Event Host / Sponsor
• Instameals — Founding Engineer / DevOps
• MyI, LLC — First Contract Engineer / Engineering Advisor
• E-Gov Link, EC-Link — Contract Software Engineer / Technical Writer
• Swarmfarm, LLC — First Employee, DevOps