David Dixon
Staff Software Engineer at Credit Karma
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolDavid Dixon is a Staff Software Engineer II and seasoned engineering architect with 11+ years in software and over two decades of technical leadership, currently driving solutions at Intuit Credit Karma. He specializes in translating between operations and engineering to deliver low-risk, practical architectures that solve complex, high-cost problems by leveraging existing stacks and team strengths. His background spans SaaS, analytics, image processing, genomics platforms, and decision-support systems, informed by a PhD in Physics and early research that discovered the galactic gamma-ray halo. David combines applied mathematics, statistics, and ML/AI with pragmatic prompt engineering and root-cause analysis to operationalize previously intractable problems. Colleagues rely on him to simplify complexity and produce measurable operational outcomes rather than speculative prototypes.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of California, RiversideBachelor of Arts - BA, Physics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Physics at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (152)
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Github contributions (5)
sparkofreason/sparkofreason.github.io
Aug 2019 - Feb 2024
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:66 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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Provisdom/maali
Dec 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:93 commits, 86 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
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