David Acker
Software Engineer, Core Pricing at Upstart
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Acker is a software engineer with 5 years of experience building scalable, maintainable systems and currently focused on core pricing at Upstart. He has led end-to-end projects at WebstaurantStore, from overhauling pricing configuration and migrating legacy feeds to converting checkout flows to asynchronous event-driven pipelines that cut latency by 35%. Comfortable across front-end and back-end domains, he modernized large customer-facing SPAs, served as a frontend SME, and mentored junior engineers while driving company-wide tooling like custom code analysis. An active open-source contributor to the high-profile dotnet/aspnetcore repo, he’s improved stream writing, logging generation, and added request decompression middleware—work that reflects a strong systems orientation. Based in Philadelphia with a finance background from Penn State, he brings a product-minded engineering approach that balances stakeholder collaboration with measurable operational impact.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Finance General, Bachelor of Science - BS Finance General at Penn State University
Github Skills (11)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
middleware10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
testing9
logging9
dotnet-new8
github8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/aspnetcore
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:79 reviews, 10 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `aspnetcore` repository by modifying and extending the functionality of the `HttpResponseStreamWriter` and related test files. Their work involved overriding base implementations and adding methods for asynchronous write operations, focusing on improving how the framework handles writing to streams. They also updated the Mvc project to use LoggerMessageAttribute for logging generation and added a new Request Decompression middleware to the project. Additionally, the user worked on various code fixes and analyzer improvements.
cloud-computingdotnetlinuxwindowsaspnetcore
david-acker/aspnetcore
Feb 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:174 pushes, 32 branches in 2 years 8 months
dotnetcoreweb-basedasp-net-core-mvcasp-netnet-core
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