Dave Laflam
Senior Software Engineer at Curology
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolDave Laflam is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack, high-impact products from 0→1 and scaling them through growth stages. Based in Santa Monica, he blends deep front-end and back-end expertise—React, Vue, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS—with a strong emphasis on testing, performance, accessibility, and developer velocity. As a founding engineer at Tumble he led a globally distributed team, architected core systems and integrations (DoorDash, Stripe, Twilio, Algolia), and helped grow revenue from $12K to $1.4M within a year. He’s repeatedly driven technical transformations—introducing GraphQL, refactoring monoliths into scalable SPAs, and improving message-processing latency for IoT workflows—while remaining hands-on in code and operations. Known for mentoring teams, shipping measurable product outcomes, and staying ahead of trends like AI-driven systems, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with operational discipline. An archaeologist-turned-engineer by education, he brings a curiosity for systems and long-term thinking to product design and architecture.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts Classical Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology, Bachelor of Fine Arts Classical Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology at Arizona State UniversityTechnical Studies, Technical Studies at Codesmith
English
Github Skills (49)
webstorm10
intellij9
intellij-idea9
intellij-platform8
insertion8
steroids8
safari8
linux8
windows8
removal8
apollo8
javascript8
gql8
browser-extension8
text-editor7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
davelaflam/vision-ai
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:49 PRs, 58 pushes, 19 branches in 1 month
davelaflam/react-audio-player
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:18 PRs, 24 pushes, 9 branches in 22 days
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