Hello, my name is David

I am Web Developer, Adventurer, Founder and Organizer

I'm equally at home in Ruby or the outdoors

Recent Projects

Experience

Software Engineer

Company: Instacart
Dates: Oct 2016 - Present
Software Engineer on the Shopper team. Worked on a wide variety of projects including contractor wages, lowering customer support contact rates, iOS contractor work flows, and various internal tooling.
Skills Ruby, Rails, javascript, iOS, Postgres, Haml, CSS.

Founder

Company: Captivate
Dates: April 2015 - Oct 2016
Worked to validate, test, and launch a cash flow business for while an Entrepreneur in Residence at Tradecraft. Primarily focused in the real estate sector on helping agents with back office services. Created initial product in Ruby on Rails. Defined product direction while doing extensive user testing.
Skills Customer Validation, Product Development, Sales, Growth Experiments, Finacial Modeling, Web Design.

Founder

Company: Little Cat Labs
Dates: Oct 2014 - April 2015
Designed, researched and build a system to assist cat owners to help their pets lose weight. Interviewed veterinarians to validate medical severity and prevelance in animals. Prototyped wireless baby scales connected to a Ruby on Rails web app.
Tech Stack: Rails, Arduino, Hardware Weight Measuring, HTML, CSS, Postgress, Heroku and Atom.

Instructor

Company: General Assembly
Dates: Feb 2015 - August 2015
Teach Ruby on Rails to new developers. Help students with in class labs, code review homework assignments, work one on one during office hours.
Tech Stack: Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, Git, Github and Sublime.

Web Developer

Dates: May 2014 - Oct 2014
Full stack web developer with a focus on Ruby on Rails. Actively developed the company's customer facing Diabetes prevention product. Worked daily with Product Managers, designers and company wide departments. Participated in sprint planning, paired programming and engineering retros.
Tech Stack: Ruby, Rails, HTML, Haml, CSS, Coffeescript, Rspec, Cucumber, Git, Github, Backbone, Postgres, Jenkins, Rubymine, and AWS.

Web Developer

Company: Tapjoy
Dates: Oct 2012 - May 2014
Full stack web developer with a focus on Ruby on Rails. Worked on customer facing advertising platform for game developers. Participated in feature design, code reviews, sprint and a/b experiment design.
Tech Stack: Ruby, Rails, HTML, Haml, CSS, Coffeescript, Git, Github, MySql, Jenkins, NewRelic, Airbrake, Sublime Text, AWS, and Heroku.

Event Organizer

Company: Railsbridge
Dates: Oct 2012 - May 2014

Both taught and organized Railsbridge programming workshops for women.

Teaching: Ran lecutre and lab for small groups of new programmers.

Organized: Lead Tapjoy's efforts to twice host workshops onsite. Managed a team of 3-5 engineers producing the events. Blog post

Tech Stack: Ruby, Rails, HTML, Git, Github, SQLite, Sublime Text, and Heroku.

CTO and Partner

Dates: Feb 2011 - June 2012
Managed all technical aspects of delivering service to clients. Designed new client offerings including service levels and pricings. Met with potential clients in sales meetings. Designed and pitched new IT software products to investors. Worked with software consultants to scope products features and pricing.
Tech Stack: Expert level experience with the Windows Server Ecosystem including mail server, sql servers, file server, domain controller, virtual machines, remote monitoring, on call systems, backup, antivirus, imaging software, and desktop support.

Senior IT Consultant

Company: Langtech Systems
Dates: July 2005 - July 2010
Managed all aspects of IT for 500 users spread over 10 companies.
Tech Stack: Expert level experience with the Windows Server Ecosystem including mail server, sql servers, file server, domain controller, virtual machines, remote monitoring, on call systems, backup, antivirus, imaging software, and desktop support.
I'm an adventurer, both in technology and the outdoors. I'm always looking for new skills to learn and opportunities to investigate.

Rock Climbing

I'm an active climber. My favorite spots are Tahoe, Yosemite and Joshua Tree.

Sailing

Most of my sailing has been in the SF Bay, but my favorite experience was captaining a sailboat in the caribbean with 5 friends.

Event Organizing

I've organized events for Startup Weekend, RailsBridge and Dev Bootcamp

Hi Fives

If we are working on a project you're gonna get a hi five.
Current Home: San Francisco