Dave Anderson
Lead Consultant Software Engineer at Recurse Center
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Anderson is a polyglot full-stack lead consultant with 12 years of experience embedding into teams to deliver high-impact web and distributed systems across startups and large organizations from NYC. He excels at balancing delivery under tight timelines with coach‑like mentorship, guiding teams on architecture, observability, and pragmatic agile/XP practices while continuously improving collaboration and processes. Dave has led cross-functional squads to build event-driven platforms, GraphQL backends, and performant React experiences, often translating complex workflows into reusable APIs and vertical slices for continuous delivery. Notable wins include optimizing React performance to shave first‑contentful paint from seconds to fractions, driving large client team growth, and implementing notification/event broker architectures in regulated environments. He is a Recurse Center alum, co-host of a podcast about developer growth with a sizable audience, and brings a mechanical engineering background that surfaces in his systems-thinking approach.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering at Rutgers School of Engineering
English
Github Skills (58)
graphene10
relay10
docker-desktop9
profanity9
python9
phoenix-channels9
nodejs9
graphql9
react8
agile8
pair-programming8
redux8
web-application8
retrospective7
parse7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dvndrsn/graphql-python-tutorial
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 45 pushes, 11 branches in 18 days
dvndrsn/M3uParser
Jul 2013 - Feb 2016
A simple program in Python to Parse M3U playlist files.
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
pythonm3uprofanitym3u-playlistm3u8-parser
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