David Driscoll
Software Engineer at Grammarly
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Driscoll is a backend-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building consumer and developer-facing endpoints, currently developing zero-to-one enterprise features at Grammarly. He specializes in Scala and the Twitter stack, AWS-hosted microservices, and data pipelines, and has repeatedly owned feature end-to-end from tech spec to implementation and tests. His background in digital academic research and a PhD in Classics inform a data-driven, user-centered approach—evident in a past project that visualized geospatial patterns in ancient poetry and was later rewritten to run entirely client-side. At Foursquare he led and shipped complex features like push notifications, Year-in-Review analytics, and billing migrations while mentoring new engineers. Comfortable with DynamoDB, Mongo, Spark/Scalding, Java Spring, and frontend glue, he blends rigorous engineering practices with an unusual humanities-trained perspective on product and data.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Illinois Mathematics and Science AcademyUniversity of GeorgiaBA Physics (honors) Classics (honors), BA Physics (honors) Classics (honors) at Grinnell CollegePhD Classics, PhD Classics at Stanford University
Github Skills (38)
javascript10
react-components10
typescript10
material-ui10
mui10
material-design10
react10
elo9
feed8
matchmaking7
discord-bot7
python7
php6
rss6
git-repo6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sul-cidr/lyricmappingproject.stanford.edu
Nov 2013 - Nov 2022
Mapping Greek Lyric Poets
Contributions:1 review, 211 commits, 6 PRs in 9 years 1 month
lyricpythonmapping
davidfdriscoll/epic-greek-dictionary
Apr 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch, 6 comments in 2 years 11 months
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