David Coven
Founder, President & CEO at Scholar Fund
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Coven is a mission-driven founder and CEO with 11 years of experience building operational platforms and social-impact ventures that connect people to opportunity—from aviation and transportation engineering roles at Boeing, Tesla, and UW Hyperloop to leading Scholar Fund’s Unify platform which has helped distribute over $280M in relief. He combines hands-on engineering chops (mechanical, systems, Python tooling, CFD/FEA experience) with product-minded operations, scaling programs like Scholarship Junkies to serve 23,000+ students monthly and help secure $100M+ in scholarships. David repeatedly builds hybrid tech-human systems—like Backpack Ops’ AI-powered back-office model and Laplace Labs’ civic technology work—that prioritize equity, multilingual access, and measurable outcomes. A pragmatic risk-taker who views setbacks as learning signals, he excels at reorganizing teams, winning technical awards, and driving sponsor-funded projects from design to deployment. Based in Seattle, he balances technical leadership and community service on boards and university advisory teams while pursuing creative outlets such as poetry, public speaking, and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, General Education, High School Diploma, General Education at Cleveland High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
dump10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mrcoven94/mrcoven94.github.io
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:9 commits in 1 month
mrcoven94/uwhyperloop
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:5 commits in 3 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.