David Corson-knowles
Senior Staff Engineer at Gusto
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Corson-Knowles is a Senior Staff Engineer and seasoned engineering leader with nine years of product and people leadership across high-growth fintechs, most recently at Gusto and previously scaling risk engineering at Chime. He combines deep full‑stack expertise (Ruby, React) with a founder’s mindset and a track record building teams, platforms, and patented systems that delivered hundred‑million dollar impacts. David created and led Risk Engineering disciplines, founding multiple teams to automate investigations and claims while hiring and training managers through multi-office expansions. A math prodigy and former food entrepreneur, he brings unusual cross-domain fluency—from launching restaurants to building a regex translator—helping translate complex regulatory and operational risk into pragmatic technical solutions.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Political Science (and Mathematics), B.A. Political Science (and Mathematics) at Yale University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (122)
rubocop10
postgresql10
testing10
rspec10
mvc10
stimulusjs10
hotwire10
coverage10
ruby10
activerecord10
linter10
ruby-on-rails10
test-coverage10
static-analysis10
factories10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
corsonknowles/RegExTranslator.com
Aug 2017 - Nov 2020
A customized translator for Regular Expressions, modeled after the ease and usability of Google Translate
Contributions:140 commits, 41 PRs, 106 pushes in 3 years 4 months
usabilityregular-expressionscustomizedtranslationgoogle-translate
corsonknowles/Hangmangame.co
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:92 commits, 84 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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