David A is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building web platforms, infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and iOS apps, currently enabling web developer experience at Robinhood. He helped migrate Robinhood’s core app to Bazel, led large-scale package manager and build-rule transitions, and integrated license and vulnerability scanning across teams. A pragmatic contributor to open-source release tooling (improving Intuit’s auto Slack plugin and publish tests), he combines backend reliability with front-end and mobile fluency. Based in Tucson, he also runs a swing dance school, showing entrepreneurship and operational chops beyond engineering. Colleagues know him as a learner who prioritizes clean, reusable, and scalable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Case Western Reserve University
The Elisabeth Morrow School
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Frisch School
Generate releases based on semantic version labels on pull requests.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Slack plugin within the `auto` release automation tool. Their work involved preventing unintended Slack notifications on prerelease branches and refining the publish settings. Furthermore, they contributed to improved testing practices by implementing tests for different publish scenarios. They also addressed code quality through refactoring.
Contributions:198 commits, 28 PRs, 196 pushes in 2 years
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