Dave Kincade
Senior Software Engineer at Roblox
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Kincade is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building backend systems that solve data and machine learning problems. He has balanced hands-on engineering and management, leading data and ML efforts at startups and product teams—most recently driving content safety at Roblox. His background spans security, computer vision (3D reconstruction), recommendations, and order/inventory systems, with practical fluency in Python, Ruby/Rails, and service-oriented architectures. Dave thrives in seed-stage environments and scale-up contexts alike, having moved between startups and larger platforms while translating ML research into production services. An early career foundation at Google and mobile security work at Lookout inform his pragmatic approach to reliability and safety. Colleagues know him for pairing technical depth with a product-minded focus on user trust and data quality.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BASc, Computer Engineering, BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (15)
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ruby-on-rails3
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
davekincade/track_beast
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Collection of files for the Track Beast: https://medium.com/@kincade/track-beast-build-log-a-trackball-dactyl-manuform-19eaa0880222
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 months
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