Davy is a perfectionist who is great with people and a committed optimist. Auckland born and bred, Davy joined the Endev team from the University of Auckland, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems with First Class Honours and also employed to design a web-based online assessment tool, Oasis, using Python.
One of Davy's final year study programmes focussed on sustainability engineering, an important emerging field, and his final year research work was a software project to compress and encode Navman NZ map data. This successfully reduced the overall road map data size used in Navman GPS units by using better road representation and encoding techniques. In his first year Davy also worked as an Engineering Assistant at Buckley Systems where he helped assemble magnets for a circular nuclear particle accelerator for the Australian Synchrotron project.
Davy won the Mervin Walter Stoddart Scholarship in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2004 and was ranked in the top 5% of engineering students in 2003.
When away from the computer, Davy teaches Martial Arts at the Kohimarama club of Hsou Jing Do. He has been instructing since 1996 and holds is a Hsou Jing Do Black Belt. He's also a musician and dancer, playing the keyboard, guitar and didgeridoo and earning medals in Latin American, Ballroom, and New Vogue dance exams.
Davy works in Python, C, C++, PHP, Java and HTML, MySQL and C#, and in both Linux and Microsoft environments.