Dave Mankoff
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDave Mankoff is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building performant, user-facing systems and device UI, currently shaping Android SystemUI at Google. His career spans web performance work on PageSpeed and Mobile Friendly Test, to designing polished wearables UI for Android Wear, and earlier bootstrapping a web brokerage product as the first full-time engineer at Open Mile. A pragmatic back-end developer with a strong Python background, he has contributed to the popular Pelican static site generator by improving HTML parsing and content summary handling. Based in Boston, he brings deep systems understanding from roles at Going.com/AOL, First Book, and Lockheed Martin, and combines product-focused engineering with an eye for polish. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluidly between low-level performance tuning and shipping visible UX refinements on constrained devices.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteHighschool, Highschool at Phillips Academy
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Github Skills (19)
python10
static-site-generator10
html-parsing10
restructuredtext9
jquery9
css9
nltk9
sqlite9
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
markdown-it8
markdown8
testing8
html6
sql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
getpelican/pelican
Jun 2012 - Feb 2013
Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to enhancing the Pelican static site generator's functionality and resolving associated issues. Their work involved implementing features like summary length configuration and incorporating proper HTML parsing. They also addressed encoding warnings and made adjustments to existing code, including modifying settings and test files to support the changes. The user demonstrated a good understanding of the project's architecture and core components.
markdownpythonstatic-site-generatorpelican
mankyd/formpump
Feb 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:24 commits in 2 years 7 months
fillpythonhtml-formsclean
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