Dave Smith
Software Engineer at Character.AI
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDave Smith is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building real-time systems, simulation, graphics, embedded HMI, and scalable web and data-visualization platforms. He has driven cross-functional initiatives at Meta Reality Labs to quantify and improve end-to-end hand-tracking accuracy, led autonomous in-cabin perception and data-platform teams at Lyft, and contributed backend improvements to the popular Apache Superset open-source project. Comfortable shipping low-latency C++ runtime code as well as cloud services and ML-enabled products, he bridges research and production to productize vision and ML algorithms. Based in Seattle, he thrives on working with smart teams to tackle hard problems and often surfaces pragmatic infrastructure and testing improvements that make systems more reusable and auditable.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (13)
apache-superset10
sql10
python10
flask-ask9
flask9
data-engineering8
presto8
sqlalchemy8
analytics7
data-analysis7
data-visualizations7
data-visualisation7
data-visualization7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/superset
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 31 PRs, 108 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Dave contributed to the Apache Superset project by implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving code performance. They focused on the backend, as evidenced by changes to the `stats_logger.py` and `db_engine_specs.py` files, which included the addition of injectable Statsd client and Presto data type support. The user also made modifications to the SQL Lab, SQL Lab scheduling and SQL Lab endpoint, which were features within the application.
pythonapache-supersetflaskbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
DiggidyDave/dotfiles
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 11 months
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