Devon Cameron Davis

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Partner at Sunbird Growth · Consumer

Sunbird Growth
Philadelphia, PA · ET (UTC-5)
13+ years experience
Wharton
English
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Overview

Partner at Sunbird Growth, backing consumer companies. Sit on 4 boards. Before that: Twilio and Qualcomm. I write short fiction no one reads.

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  • Founders building in ML infrastructure
  • Second opinions on venture capital decisions
  • Questions about ML infrastructure
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Requests to fix your code for free
Skills
venture capitalmarketplacesbrands
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into Series A consumer in India and SEA

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
ML infrastructure
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Happy to follow a strong lead. Portfolio support on pricing and enterprise sales.

Philadelphia, PA · remote OKbrandsmarketplacesventure capital

Experience

  1. Partner
    Jul 2024 - Present
    Sunbird Growth · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 6.
    • Led the migration of 72 services to brands.
    • Shipped 17 launches on the ML platform team without a rollback.
  2. Business Analyst
    Apr 2022 - Jul 2024
    Twilio · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Moved 83% of ML platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Cut p99 latency on the ML platform services from 731ms to 139ms.
  3. Associate Partner
    May 2019 - Apr 2022
    Qualcomm · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Grew the ML platform team from 6 to 18 engineers.
  4. Consultant
    Nov 2016 - May 2019
    Accenture · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Delivered 14 engagements across 5 countries.
  5. Engagement Manager
    Apr 2014 - Nov 2016
    PepsiCo · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $174 million.

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Education

  1. Wharton
    MBA, Business Administration
    2011 - 2013
  2. University of Washington
    BS, Computer Science
    2004 - 2008

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