David Cunningham
Technical Lead - Client at Econify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Cunningham is a seasoned full-stack technical lead with 11 years of experience building scalable content and media systems for organizations like The New York Times, Peloton, and Bloomberg. He combines hands-on engineering (TypeScript React, Scala, Java, GraphQL, Protobuf) with product-minded architecture—leading end-to-end projects such as NYT’s Card Deck and Visual Stories that enabled new visual formats across flagship coverage. Now leading client engineering at Econify, he also founded BitGlade and runs large NYC tech communities, organizing New York Tech & Beer® and the New York AI User Group that together attract thousands and routinely draw 60+ attendees. Comfortable shipping backend services and reusable frontend components, he has a track record of turning complex media workflows into production systems and of scaling both technical and community ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt UniversityMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at University of Denver
Github Skills (30)
jsdom10
javascript9
socket-io9
typescript9
websocket9
nodejs9
react9
html8
server8
realtime7
ui-components7
application-framework7
sanity-io6
react-components6
antd6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nyctnb/nyctnb-com
Jul 2019 - Feb 2024
The website for New York Tech & Beer
Contributions:14 PRs, 31 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 7 months
yorknew-yorkjekyll
CunningDJ/RecreationGovAvailability
May 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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