David Carter
Software Engineer, Client Experience at Forge
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Carter is a pragmatic software engineer in San Francisco with 11 years building high-performance, SEO-driven web experiences using JAMstack patterns, React (Next.js/Gatsby), and headless CMS integrations. He’s driven large frontend modernizations—introducing TypeScript, migrating to functional React, and consolidating multiple WordPress instances into a unified headless architecture—to improve performance, developer experience, and organic search. At Eaze he led frontend architecture, observability, and experimentation efforts for a high-traffic consumer site, mentoring senior engineers and shaping the roadmap around scalability and reliability. He contributes to open-source starters bridging WordPress and Gatsby, focusing on UX improvements like paginated blog flows and pragmatic plugin adoption. Comfortable operating across full-stack concerns from custom WordPress plugins to microservices for onboarding, he pairs strong mathematical training with a bias for measurable performance gains. Now at Forge, he continues to specialize in accessible, modular sites that balance developer productivity with real-world business impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Mathematics, Associate's degree, Mathematics at Antelope Valley CollegeBachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at California State University, NorthridgeMaster's Degree, Mathematics, Master's Degree, Mathematics at Northern Illinois University
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Github Skills (10)
javascript10
gatsby10
pagination10
react10
wordpress9
ionic-framework6
pushwoosh6
jquery6
angularjs6
cordova6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GatsbyCentral/gatsby-starter-wordpress
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
LOOKING FOR MAINTAINER - - - A GatsbyJS starter template that leverages the WordPress API, ACF and more
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:David focused on implementing pagination functionality for the blog section of the GatsbyJS starter. They initially created custom pagination logic and components. Subsequently, they replaced the custom code with the `gatsby-awesome-pagination` plugin to simplify pagination implementation. The user's changes demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience of the blog by allowing for paginated content access.
gatsbyapireactleveragesgatsby-starter
dajocarter/dajometal
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 116 pushes, 13 branches in 2 months
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