David Guilfoyle
Co-Founder at Stirlingshire
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Guilfoyle is a senior software engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling B2B and B2C cloud-native web and mobile applications. He has repeatedly led engineering and product teams through re-architecture and fast growth phases, blending strong Ruby on Rails and React expertise with cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. As a pragmatic, hands-on manager he mentors teams of up to twenty engineers while maintaining individual contributor velocity to ship high-quality, performant systems. His background spans founding startups that proved Rails at scale to directing engineering at larger orgs, giving him a rare mix of entrepreneurial grit and institutional delivery experience. Known for turning product ideas into modular, testable architectures, he frequently bridges product, design, and data to drive measurable outcomes. Based in New York and Stanford-educated in Computer Science, he thrives on solving hard scaling and integration challenges across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (15)
heroku10
rspec10
devise10
hotwire10
postgresql10
bootstrap10
sidekiq10
ruby9
pundit9
rails9
css9
diffbot8
ruby-on-rails8
svg7
api3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davedkg/davedkg-rails-template
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Deploy this customizable Ruby on Rails starter template to Heroku in seconds.
Contributions:623 commits, 195 PRs, 1124 pushes in 4 years 7 months
herokuruby-on-railsbootstrapdevisehotwire
davedkg/davedkg-rails-plantmonitor
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 33 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
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