David Ding
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ding is a Member of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs with seven years of software engineering experience building reliable, scalable systems. He previously contributed to product development at Citizen and advised early-stage teams at Scout, combining hands-on engineering with pragmatic product sensibilities. Trained at Caltech and Columbia, he brings a strong foundations-first approach to distributed systems and operational reliability. His background includes site reliability work at Google and teaching experience at Caltech, reflecting both production-scale experience and an aptitude for explaining complex ideas. Based in New York, he balances deep technical focus with creative pursuits—making music and solving puzzles—which inform a pragmatic, user-centered engineering style. For more about his work and projects, see davidding.me.
7 years of coding experience
B.S, B.S at California Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.), Master of Science (M.S.) at Columbia University in the City of New York
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (16)
k8s-operator10
go10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
sql10
cockroachdb10
sql-database10
high-availability10
database10
terraform-provider6
react6
slick4
git4
helm4
react-carousel3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
davidwding/cockroach-operator
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
k8s operator for CRDB
Contributions:1 PR, 96 pushes, 48 branches in 8 months
k8s-operatoroperatorresource-managementk8skubernetes
davidwding/cockroach
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
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