David Hayes
Principal Software Engineer at Gerson Lehrman Group
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Hayes is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with 13 years of professional experience building scalable web and systems software across startups and large tech firms. He brings deep hands-on expertise in HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Python, and C++ alongside strong OOP/OOD and Agile practices, honed through roles at Google, Cloudera, and a long tenure at Gerson Lehrman Group. David has moved between individual contributor and leadership positions—briefly serving as Director of Software Engineering—demonstrating an ability to drive architecture and delivery while remaining a practical coder. His background includes early game and tools development and shipping client/server titles, a thread that surfaces in his pragmatic approach to performance and tooling. A UT Austin CS graduate, he combines enterprise engineering discipline with a taste for low-level optimization and front-end polish.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (200)
pixel-editor10
gamepad10
lua10
mobile-web10
cpp10
game-development10
spine10
phaser10
javascript10
runtimes10
qt10
animation10
keyboard-shortcuts10
rendering10
shiny10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
drhayes/impact-dev-server
Mar 2013 - Aug 2020
A development server for ImpactJS as a Node.js app.
Contributions:37 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
nodejs
drhayes/TESound
May 2018 - Jan 2020
TEsound is a sound manager for the Love2D framework.
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
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