Dave Ankin
Software Engineer at n/a
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolDave Ankin is a software engineer based in the NYC metro area with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating Java and Spring-based microservices for enterprises and startups. He’s delivered production systems across healthcare, automotive, finance, and electoral software, pairing backend development with infrastructure work—Terraform, Azure, Kubernetes, and secure landing-zone design—to reduce insider risk and enable AI projects. As a founding engineer at a payments start-up and a Principal Full Stack Engineer at BNY Mellon, he blends product pragmatism with security-first architecture and developer tooling. He contributes to open-source (notably improving PDF generation in the fpdf2 library with refactors, bug fixes and test coverage), showing attention to code readability and long-term maintainability. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, cross-team integration, and smoothing SDLC and deployment gaps so code not only ships but stays healthy in production.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bensalem High SchoolHoly Ghost Preparatory SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of PittsburghComputer Science, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
1,129reputation
83kreached
58answers
17questions
Github Skills (14)
code-formatting10
pdf-generation10
python10
testing10
documentation9
react6
json6
xml-builder6
npm6
nodejs6
typescript6
curl6
xml2js6
xml-parsing6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
py-pdf/fpdf2
Mar 2017 - Jan 2021
Simple PDF generation for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Library Maintainer
Back-end Developer & Library MaintainerContributions:27 reviews, 128 commits, 27 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on code formatting and readability improvements within the `fpdf2` library. They made changes to enhance syntax, improve code style, and address formatting issues across multiple files, including core files and helper modules. The contributions included refactoring and restructuring the `multi_cell` method, fixing page break behavior and updating documentation. Additionally, the user added unit and integration tests to the project.
pythonpdfpdf-librarysvgpdf-generation
alexanderankin/side-projects
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 90 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 3 months
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