David Drake
Lead Consultant at Apex Systems
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Drake is a Lead Consultant and seasoned full‑stack engineer with 11 years of experience designing scalable web applications and leading teams to deliver measurable business impact. He has driven end-to-end projects—from database and GraphQL schema design to performant React UIs—reducing task times from 30 minutes to under 8 in a compliance workflow and cutting e-commerce cart errors from 400+ to under 10 monthly. Known for pragmatic, long-term solutions, he codifies best practices across organizations and mentors engineers with a blend of compassion and technical rigor. Comfortable as both leader and collaborator, he pairs strong front- and back-end expertise (TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node, PostgreSQL, GCP) with a knack for translating operational pain points into prioritized, shippable improvements. Based in Portland, Oregon, he also has a history of building developer-focused tooling and automation that streamlines QA and migrations.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Game and Interactive Media Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Game and Interactive Media Design at Collins College
Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DJCecil2/math-demo
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
DJCecil2/watir
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 month
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