Summary
Dave Charnuska is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building customer-facing web products, currently focused on React and TypeScript at Better.com in New York. He has driven measurable business impact—leading a Rates page redesign that lifted app-to-lock conversion by 30% and enabling new partnerships and state expansion through backend migrations and automation. Comfortable across the stack, Dave has migrated monolithic Rails front-ends to modern React apps, owned end-to-end features at iCapital, and shipped interactive ad experiences at Genius. He pairs frontend polish with backend reliability, having worked with Ruby/Rails, Go services, PostgreSQL, and AWS Lambdas. An analytical thinker by training (B.S. in Biology) who started in lab research, he brings a data-minded approach and comfort with high-throughput, production-critical systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Biology, B.S., Biology at Northeastern University
Spanish, English