David Whitaker
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Whitaker is a seasoned engineering leader and educator with nine years of experience building and scaling web applications. As Director of Engineering and Founding Product Engineer at Govly, he combines hands-on product development with strategic team leadership to deliver customer-focused software. He brings a strong front-end foundation, built on JavaScript, Ruby, and Rails, and a track record of mentoring engineers and teaching complex concepts to diverse audiences at Turing School. His background in psychology from Indiana University informs his approach to team dynamics, user experience, and building collaborative engineering cultures. Based in Denver, Colorado, he previously drove front-end work at SproutVideo and contributed to foundational front-end exercises for early learners, underscoring a commitment to accessible, practical software education. He thrives at the intersection of product, people, and code, turning challenging problems into clear, scalable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Psychology at Indiana University BloomingtonCertificate of Web Application Development with Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript, Certificate of Web Application Development with Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript at Turing School of Software & Design
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Github Skills (14)
functionfs10
javascript10
javascripts10
parallel-arrays9
typedarrays9
array-object9
multidimensional-arrays9
conditional-statements9
multi-dimensional-array9
dynamic-arrays9
multi-dimensional-arrays9
object-design8
object-model8
javascript-objects8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
turingschool-examples/frontend-mod-1-prework
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 18 commits, 5 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on completing and updating introductory exercises related to front-end development fundamentals. Their work included implementing code within JavaScript files to solve exercises in number operations, string manipulation, and boolean logic. They also addressed array manipulation, conditional statements, and object creation. Further commits show the user working on functions and variable assignments.
damwhit/giphyfavfav
Feb 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
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