Summary
Dave Galbraith is a Principal Engineer based in California with 12 years of hands-on experience building reliable, product-focused systems across startups and scale-ups. He has led engineering efforts from core pricing engines and account systems at Shift to founding-level technical leadership as CTO of Fanimal, and now drives architecture and delivery at TickPick. Comfortable across the stack, his background includes Go, TypeScript/React, Postgres, and designing data integration back ends that power observability and analytics. He’s also an experienced mentor and instructor, having taught and guided new engineers at Hackbright Academy, which speaks to his ability to translate complex ideas for diverse teams. Outside of work he maintains an engineering blog, reflecting a continuous learning mindset and a penchant for clear technical communication. An early interest in data and markets shows through side projects like independent options trading, hinting at an analytical approach to product decisions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
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