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David Lapsley - Founder & CEO in Tampa, FL

David Lapsley

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AI infrastructure and cloud platforms

ShipKodeAI, IncUniversity of MelbourneTampa, FL14 Years ExperienceExecutive Level

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Founder building Shipkode.ai, an enterprise SaaS product using generative AI to automate the front half of the software development lifecycle—from idea and customer feedback to engineering-ready specifications—with a beta planned for the first week of April. Has spoken with 24+ VCs over two years and mentors cybersecurity startups through the Tampa Bay Wave accelerator, emphasizing rigorous customer discovery to avoid misaligned product development.

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Key Strengths

  • Building Shipkode.ai (consulting + product) with enterprise SaaS beta shipping first week of April
  • Deep customer-discovery driven approach to validating ideas and guiding product development
  • Strong familiarity with VC ecosystem (spoke with 24+ VCs over 2 years)
  • Mentor/advisor in Tampa Bay Wave accelerator, advising cybersecurity startups
  • Clear product vision: automating idea-to-engineering-ready specs to remove SDLC bottlenecks in AI-accelerated development

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Experience

Founder & CEOShipKodeAI, Inc · Jan 2024 – Present
Director, AWS Network Fabric ControllersAmazon Web Services · Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
VP, EngineeringCorelight · Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Director, EngineeringMetacloud / Cisco · Jan 2013 – Jan 2019
Engineering Manager, Data ScienceOpenX · Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

Education

University of Melbournedoctorate, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Monash Universitybachelor, Electrical & Computer Systems Eng.

Skills

Agentic AIMulti-Agent SystemsLangGraphLangChainRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)PineconeMLOpsModel MonitoringCost OptimizationDistributed SystemsKubernetesDockerTerraformAnsibleGit

Languages

English

Publications

4 publications

Network attack detectionCyber attack detection and responseServer overload detection and mitigationDynamic pricing for real-time auctions

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David LapsleyExecutive Engineering Leader specializing in AI infrastructure and cloud platforms