David Furber
Senior Software Engineer at TrueCar, Inc.
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Furber is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and leading teams around Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript (React/TypeScript) products. He currently leads engineering on core business systems at TrueCar, having previously guided technical direction for interactive museum software, e-commerce platforms, and client-focused Rails projects since 2006. Comfortable spanning backend integrations, SSO, data import/export, and front-end interactivity, he blends hands-on coding with people leadership and product-minded delivery. His background includes a CTO role at an edtech startup and academic teaching, which contribute to a pragmatic, user-centered approach to software and documentation. Based in Ithaca, NY, he is notable for maintaining long-term Rails expertise while progressively adopting modern front-end stacks and touchless interactivity solutions.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MA, History, MA, History at Clemson UniversityPhD, History, PhD, History at University at BuffaloBA, International Affairs, BA, International Affairs at Kennesaw State University
German, Bulgarian
Github Skills (66)
git-history10
audit10
archived10
mosaic9
tiles9
ruby9
rails9
persistent9
activerecord8
ruby-on-rails8
mediawiki-extension8
geotiff8
storage8
schemaless8
json8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
historyforge/historyforge-old
Sep 2015 - Jul 2021
The HistoryForge Rails application, including the git history from when it started as a fork of MapWarper, until it got archived in favor of a new repo with a trimmed history.
Contributions:900 commits, 28 PRs, 477 pushes in 5 years 11 months
railsuntilrails-applicationmapwarperruby
dfurber/ar_doc_store
Feb 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:105 commits, 1 PR, 63 pushes in 6 years 2 months
railsoh-my-rubypostgrespersistent
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