David Pritts

Product & Service Leader | 10+ Years in Big Tech

Current Mission

The Architecture of AI Support

Building the operational foundation for AI in customer service—specifically the structured data, labeling frameworks, and seamless chatbot-to-human escalation paths required to support global creators at scale.

Experience

Amazon, AWS, Kindle, and TikTok. Scaling global portfolios and leading cross-functional teams across US and Asian markets.

Current Projects

Family Media Architecture

I maintain a custom media server that serves as a private, ad-free alternative to mainstream platforms. For our mixed-language family, this means we get specific features like bilingual subtitles and a controlled environment for my daughter to improve Chinese listening & vocabulary. It's a self-hosted solution that eliminates the creepy surveillance and algorithms of major services, giving us full control over our library and keeping our data private.

Web Infrastructure

Serving this site via a self-hosted Nginx stack on AWS Lightsail—prioritizing speed, full control, and zero bloat.

Hardware Optimization

Giving retired and low-power machines a second life as dedicated local server and routing nodes—because good hardware shouldn't go to waste.

Competitive Typing Career

TypeRacer

"One of the most influential players in the modern era of online competitive typing" — Nerds Per Minute

The first person to join TypeRacer after its founder, I held many of the site's earliest records and built the community from the ground up—starting with moderation and anti-cheating, which grew into a broad product and admin role spanning marketing, site engagement, and platform strategy. I worked with founder Alex to define and build the data export tool that became the site's public API, and analyzed user data to simplify the text sets—a change that drove a significant improvement in traffic and retention. Before leaving, I trained the next generation of PMs and community leads to take over day-to-day operations.

Communication

Fluent in Mandarin; experienced in bridging technical and business requirements across international teams.

Nerding Out

Personal finance, coin collecting, Chinese and Western philosophy, language learning, competitive typing (retired), Rubik's cubes (retired), and whatever rabbit hole I haven't gone down yet.

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