Dave Watson
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Watson is a software engineer with 11 years building low-level systems across embedded devices, Linux, mobile, DRM, networking, and large-scale backend infrastructure. He has deep C/C++ expertise from roles at Facebook—where he authored the Thrift2 async RPC framework, contributed significant portions of Folly and Wangle, improved jemalloc and lz4 fastpaths, and upstreamed a Linux kernel TLS socket—to earlier embedded and DRM work at RealNetworks and F5. His interests center on concurrency, lock-free algorithms, runtimes, and async programming, and he has practical experience maintaining libunwind and doing kernel-level development. Based in San Francisco, he combines production-grade performance tuning with a history of open-source contributions and cross-team collaboration that turn low-level research into deployable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (42)
lz410
libunwind10
actionscript10
http10
socket10
client-server10
compression10
cpp10
thrift10
csharp10
modular9
compression-algorithm9
server9
network-server9
dart9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
djwatson/jemalloc
Oct 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:100 pushes, 35 branches, 2 comments in 3 years 7 months
djwatson/hawk
Oct 2023 - Sep 2025
Contributions:1 release, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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