David Rogers
Chief Technology Officer · RentRedi
Chief Technology Officer of RentRedi, with more than 20 years building scalable cloud platforms and mentoring high-growth engineering teams. A working technical trainer and community organizer who, in his own words, has been hiring, teaching, and coaching in tech for two decades.
About
David Rogers is the Chief Technology Officer of RentRedi, where he drives innovation and operational excellence across the engineering organization. He is an accomplished technology leader with over 20 years of experience building scalable cloud platforms and mentoring high-growth engineering teams.
The engineering group he leads is deliberately wired to the customer. It includes the technical support team that bridges RentRedi's support organization and its engineers, so reported bugs and quality-of-life requests land with the people who can fix them. His hiring is public and specific: JavaScript engineers working in Node.js, React, Google Cloud, and Firebase Realtime Database.
Outside the org chart he is a teacher. He publishes as "AL the X," runs Just Enough Academy, a series of one-day seminars that teach a specific technology through project-oriented group work, keeps an open archive of his talks on GitHub, and wrote The Philosophy Behind Engineering. He also co-wrote the lyrics to the "Shaping Up with AngularJS" song that lodged itself in a generation of developers' heads in 2015.
He lives on a North Carolina hobby farm with his wife, many children, and even more barnyard animals.
What David is known for
Building engineering teams that stay close to the customer, and treating teaching as part of the job rather than a side project.
Expertise
Experience
Led the same engineering organization under its earlier title, growing the team and hiring across JavaScript, Google Cloud, and Firebase.
Runs a series of one-day seminars that teach a specific technology through project-oriented group work.
Has been hiring, teaching, and coaching in tech for two decades, organizing developer community events and publishing his talks and writing openly.
Education
The technology behind property management software should ultimately serve the people using it. That means building a platform that can scale with landlords' businesses while staying reliable, responsive, and connected to the needs we hear from customers every day. After more than 20 years building cloud platforms and engineering teams, I have learned that strong technology is not just about what you build. It is about how well it supports the people who depend on it.— David Rogers, Chief Technology Officer, RentRedi
