David Haxton
Vibes at xAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Haxton is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer and AI products across startups and large tech firms in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s shipped at-scale messaging and AI features at WhatsApp and Character.AI, founded a consumer AI startup that reached 10k DAU with unusually high engagement, and is now working at xAI. Comfortable across the stack, David combines rapid prototyping instincts from startup life with production-hardened practices learned at Facebook and Asana. He has a knack for taking risky ideas to production without catastrophes—“never destroyed a production database on day one” is his unofficial credo. Curious and irreverent, he blends hacker playfulness (beep boop?) with disciplined engineering to push toward AGI.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Concordia University-Wisconsin
Github Skills (87)
intellij-plugin10
intellij10
ide10
scalable9
extensible9
kotlin9
textinput9
build-system9
bazel9
scalatest9
bazel-rules9
django8
azure-devops8
javascript8
azure-pipelines8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
d-haxton/HaxtonBot
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Still the fastest.
Contributions:4 releases, 57 commits, 12 PRs in 17 days
d-haxton/localhostgitsync
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:40 PRs, 472 pushes, 62 branches in 1 month
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