Dave Persing
Engineer - Games at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Persing is a results-driven polyglot engineer with 11 years of experience building games and backend systems, currently contributing to Meta's games efforts from Seattle. He brings production-grade expertise in Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, and Go, paired with DevOps experience and a knack for driving process improvement and cross-functional communication. A self-taught technologist and candid liaison between engineering and management, he excels at quickly understanding complex systems and resolving discrepancies. Previously a principal engineer at BigBox VR and lead roles at Nebari and others, he blends hands-on implementation with team coaching and innovation. Unusually for an engineer, his academic background in Classics reflects a long-standing curiosity that fuels rigorous problem-solving and a love of functional programming.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Classics, Classics at University of Washington
Github Skills (30)
continuous-integration10
localstack10
python10
elixir10
aws-cloud10
testing10
authentication10
plug10
aws10
jwt10
developer-tools10
updating9
guardian9
serverless9
java7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
adobe-platform/jwt-authorize-gem
Aug 2016 - Sep 2018
Ruby JWT authorization gem for Moonbeam services consuming JWTs.
Contributions:9 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
authorizationjwtruby
moonbeam-test/load-test-repo-149
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:13 PRs, 10 pushes, 23 branches in 7 months
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