David Byttow
SVP, Technology at Oscar Health
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Byttow is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience building consumer products and large-scale distributed systems, from console game engines to platforms handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second. He cofounded Secret and Bold, raised and managed venture funding, and led major rebuilds of Postmates’ frontend and backend stacks before moving into senior engineering leadership at companies including Snap, Lyft, Bridgewater, Sorare and Oscar Health. Technically fluent across graphics, compilers, systems optimization and scalable backend architectures, he pairs deep hands-on engineering with product instincts honed as a CEO. Notably, his career began in game development—where he developed expertise in 3D math and real-time systems—which still informs his approach to performance and UX. Based in New York, he blends startup grit with enterprise-scale execution, repeatedly rebuilding teams and platforms to drive growth.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (109)
image-processing10
textarea10
webp10
svg10
heic10
libvips10
resize-images10
latency10
golang10
lightning10
signaling10
jpeg10
rule10
avif10
tiff10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
davidbyttow/govips
Dec 2016 - Jan 2022
A lightning fast image processing and resizing library for Go
Contributions:9 releases, 47 reviews, 227 commits in 5 years 1 month
imagemagickjpegresizingtiffimage
davidbyttow/sfe
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:61 commits, 55 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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