Now
What I’m doing right now.
A snapshot of where my focus is. Updated October 2026, from Los Angeles.
Looking for the next role.
I left Fanatics Betting and Gaming in September 2026 after three and a half years leading platform engineering teams. I am actively searching for Senior Engineering Manager and Director of Engineering roles — organizations where I can do the same kind of work: building the systems, process, and people that make an engineering organization reliable and fast.
If you are hiring or know someone who is, reach out.
Active projects.
AI-augmented engineering workflows
Extending the work I started at Fanatics: agents that do defined jobs inside an engineering organization. Currently focused on agentic software development, autonomous operations, and what it looks like to design a team for human + AI collaboration.
Self-hosted infrastructure
Running a home lab on Proxmox — networking, containers, observability, Home Assistant, and a deliberate move away from cloud-managed services toward infrastructure I own and understand. See the lab →
This site
Writing more, building out the Ideas section, and treating davidwaynebaxter.com as a live artifact of how I think — not just a résumé placeholder.
Current focus areas.
- Organizational design for human + AI teams
- Agentic software development
- Developer experience and engineering operating systems
- Self-hosted and private infrastructure
- AI-assisted engineering management
This is a /now page. Updated October 2026.