David Fan
Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Fan is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable, large-scale systems across Google and Pinterest, currently based in Cleveland. He has shipped cross-platform improvements to search autocomplete, on-device LLM evaluation pipelines, and robust notification reliability tooling, and his work has driven measurable product growth and operational SLAs. A dual CS and Cognitive Science graduate from Case Western Reserve, he blends algorithmic rigor with user-centered thinking—evident from research on adversarial robustness and early ML-driven product work that unlocked significant revenue. Comfortable across full stack and infrastructure challenges, he brings a pragmatic focus on monitoring, policy-safe filtering, and scalable pipelines while mentoring product-focused engineering at scale.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
css10
ruby10
html10
nodejs10
web-development10
ruby-on-rails10
jupyterlab8
jupyter7
jupyterlab-extension7
wso2-identity-server6
jupyter-widget6
vim6
wso26
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eecs-395-senior-project-team/voda
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:171 commits, 43 PRs, 135 pushes in 2 months
dfan14051/dfan.me-old-
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:105 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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