David Furchtgott
Engineering Manager at Nokia
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Furchtgott is an engineering manager and PhD-trained computer engineer with over two decades of experience designing and delivering high-performance, fault-tolerant systems across telephony, mobile, geospatial, and big data domains. He currently leads teams at Nokia responsible for acquiring, maintaining, and analyzing large geographic datasets, and has a track record founding and architecting location-enabled startups and public-safety software. Equally comfortable in C++, Java, and systems-level C, he pairs deep hands-on expertise (MapReduce/Hadoop, GPS/LBS, Linux) with proven program and people leadership from Bell Labs to small ventures. David’s background includes building secure GPS drivers used by major carriers and acting as lead development manager on large telecom software-hardware programs, reflecting his ability to move innovations from prototype to production. Known for an entrepreneurial mindset and technology-transfer instincts, he excels at turning research-grade ideas into operational systems. Based in Oak Park, Illinois, he blends academic rigor with practical delivery across the full software lifecycle.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer, Information and Control Engineering, PhD, Computer, Information and Control Engineering at University of MichiganBSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (4)
markov-chain2
bayesian2
monte-carlo2
cpp1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
furchtgott/sibilant
Apr 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 1 month
furchtgott/furchtgott.github.io
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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