David Finkel
Staff Software Engineer at VillageSQL
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Finkel is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in New York with eight years in software roles and a prior seven-year tenure in site reliability at Google, blending deep systems and runtime expertise with production-focused engineering leadership at Vimeo. He drives back-end and compilation-level improvements, having contributed to the core Go language repository—tuning RISCV64/AMD64 rewrite rules and enhancing goroutine profiling for better debug visibility. Comfortable operating at the intersection of performance, tooling, and large-scale service reliability, he mentors teams to ship efficient, observable systems. A dual mathematics and physics graduate from the University of Maryland, he brings a methodical, analytical approach to complex low-level problems that few application engineers tackle.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at University of Maryland
Github Skills (10)
golang10
compiler-optimization10
programming-language10
lang10
go10
runtime-environment10
profiling10
assembly8
debugging8
assembler8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
golang/go
Aug 2018 - Feb 2026
The Go programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 comments, 9 issues in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Go programming language repository, focusing on improvements and adjustments to the compilation and runtime environments. Their work involved modifying RISCV64 rewrite rules for optimization and type handling, as demonstrated in their adjustments to aux fields within the AMD64 compilation rules. They also addressed issues related to goroutine profiling by plumbing labels, providing more detailed insights into the program's execution flow, specifically for debug levels 0 and 1.
goprogramming-languagegolang
vimeo/dials
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Dials is an extensible configuration package for Go.
Contributions:10 releases, 54 reviews, 111 commits in 2 years 11 months
go
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