David Plass
Sr. Software Engineer at Google
New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Plass is a senior software engineer in New York with 20+ years of experience across startups, consulting and product teams, currently working at Google. He blends deep Java and object‑oriented design skills with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript and Google App Engine expertise to deliver testable, pattern-driven systems across front-end and back-end stacks. His work spans large-scale web UIs (GWT, AngularJS, Polymer) and backend services, with a recent principal engineering role at WeWork and long tenure at Google. Unusually, his background includes writing device drivers and ISO/FDA‑compliant medical software as well as data integration, showing comfort from low-level systems to product delivery. He holds a BS from MIT and an MS in Computer Science from NYU, and originally studied plant biology—an eclectic foundation that informs a pragmatic, research-minded approach.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at New York University (NYU)BS, Computer Science and Engineering, BS, Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)N/A, Plant biology, N/A, Plant biology at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (102)
verilog10
extensible10
pipeline10
scalable10
build-system10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
compiler-optimization9
abstract-syntax-tree9
compile-time9
optimizers9
synthesis9
xls9
compiler-construction9
java9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dplassgit/d2lang
Nov 2022 - Feb 2025
D2 is a strongly-typed, statically-typed, (mostly) inferred-type compiled language.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 17 PRs in 2 years 4 months
compilercompiler-constructioncompiler-optimizationoptimizersprogramming-language
dplassgit/arduino
Sep 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:97 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 4 months
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