David Fundingsland is an Engineering Manager based in Hong Kong with nearly a decade of hands-on technology leadership across real-time collaboration, on-demand services, e-commerce, and travel. He has led product- and engineering-focused teams as CTO/COO at startups and scaled initiatives in international, cross-functional environments, bringing agile delivery and data-informed decision making to bear. At Plukka he drove a fourfold conversion uplift through infrastructure and UX overhaul, and more recently he’s been building cloud-collaborative game tech and driving engineering at Bullish. A pragmatic technologist fluent in strategy, project delivery, analytics and research, he combines executive perspective with deep implementation experience. His open-source contributions include back-end and ML work on the popular InstaPy project, integrating Clarifai for robust image and video analysis—an example of applying applied ML to practical automation. He pairs liberal-arts training in social thought and history with product-focused engineering instincts, making him comfortable translating complex user needs into operational software.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MA Social Thought, MA Social Thought at New York University
📷 Instagram Bot - Tool for automated Instagram interactions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Contributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 18 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the integration of the Clarifai API, a tool for image recognition, within the Instagram bot. Their work focused on incorporating features to analyze images using Clarifai, including the addition of models for different content types and workflows, and implementing probability settings for tag matching. They also modified existing code to handle potential errors and incorporate video analysis, enhancing the bot's image and video content analysis capabilities.
Fast and powerful SSL/TLS server scanning library.
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 1 month
sslja3tlsscanning-libraryssl-tls
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David Fundingsland - Engineering Manager at Bullish