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short_name: dlv
name: David Venable
photo: '/assets/media/authors/dlv.jpg'
github: dlvenable
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David is a senior software engineer working on observability in OpenSearch at Amazon Web Services. 
He is a maintainer on the Data Prepper project. Prior to working at Amazon, he was the CTO at 
Allogy Interactive - a start-up creating mobile-learning solutions for healthcare.