David Fenster
Staff Software Engineer at DeepL
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Fenster is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 13 years of experience designing scalable web apps and services across full-stack, SOA, and REST API architectures. He has led large, cross-team initiatives—most notably Shutterstock’s multi-year Account Restructure and an enterprise-wide authorization platform serving millions of users with near-perfect uptime. Known for lucid communication with executives and engineers alike, he blends hands-on coding (Node.js, C#, SQL, Ruby, Perl, JS) with architectural vision and measurable, metric-driven outcomes. David authors processes as well as systems, having created Shutterstock’s Architecture Review Process to improve collaboration and technical quality across teams. He brings an encyclopedic technical knowledge and eagerness to learn, often stepping into product, project, or management roles to keep projects moving. He also applies pragmatic performance and security instincts—from automated compromised-account protection to large-scale A/B testing automation—that aren’t obvious from a simple title.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Lehigh UniversityEast Brunswick High School
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Github Skills (41)
error-messages10
shutterstock10
error-handling10
electron9
typescript9
hyper8
editor8
visual-studio8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
visual-studio-code8
microsoft8
javascript7
pattern7
css7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dfenster/dfenster.github.io
Feb 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:18 pushes in 5 years 3 months
shutterstock/node-common-errors
Aug 2012 - Jul 2020
Common error classes and utility functions
Contributions:139 commits, 11 PRs, 27 pushes in 8 years
utility-functionserror-handlingerrorerror-classes
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