Dave Pack is a web developer with 11 years of experience building scalable front-end and cross-platform mobile experiences, currently contributing at Kroger Technology from Arvada, Colorado. He blends big-picture problem solving with hands-on implementation—shipping React, React Native, and Node.js solutions across startups and larger teams. As a former technical cofounder and CTO he led engineering decisions and code reviews, and at Expo contributed to react-navigation’s safe-area tooling to improve iPhone X and iOS layout handling. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs practical performance and UX focus with a curiosity for connections and future-facing ideas.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
⚠️ Deprecated: use the successor react-native-safe-area-context instead!
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:2 releases, 30 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on improving the `react-native-safe-area-view` library, which is used for handling safe areas in iOS applications. Their contributions included fixing platform-specific checks, updating the library to align with the React Navigation's SafeAreaView component, and implementing features like handling translucent status bars within Expo. Furthermore, they updated the library to handle animated style values and adjusted the padding calculations.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.