David Gouldin
Software Developer at Stripe
Dallas, Texas, United States
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RockstarDavid Gouldin is a seasoned software developer with 16 years of experience building backend systems for startups and scale-ups, currently at Stripe in Dallas. His background spans hands-on engineering and architecture roles at Heroku, Clara Labs, and multiple early-stage companies, with a strong focus on Python/Django and reliable production services. An active open-source contributor, he has made substantive contributions to oauthlib, implementing OAuth 1.0a signature generation and a robust client class used widely for secure request signing. Colleagues know him for combining pragmatic engineering with protocol-level correctness—fixing subtle bugs and hardening security-critical code paths. He brings both independent consulting experience and enterprise-grade discipline to teams shipping payment and assistant-oriented infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
oauthlib/oauthlib
Mar 2012 - Sep 2012
A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:David contributed significantly to the implementation of OAuth-related functionalities within the `oauthlib/oauthlib` repository, focusing on the OAuth 1.0a protocol. Their work involved adding new modules and functions based on the OAuth specification, particularly section 3.4 regarding signature generation. The user also implemented an OAuth client class, which is integral to the creation of request signatures. Subsequent commits refined the client class, addressing bugs and improving the overall correctness and robustness of the signing mechanisms.
request-signingpythonsigningjwt-bearer-tokensidentity
dgouldin/django-socialite
Sep 2010 - Aug 2011
Contributions:17 commits in 10 months
playingsocial-networks
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