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)
animated10
cpp10
phaser10
aseprite10
draw10
keybase10
pixel-art10
gif10
facebook-instant-games10
pixel-editor10
gif-animation10
windows10
styled-components10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
drhayes/drfish
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
drhayes/fizzle
Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:76 pushes, 12 branches, 1 issue in 1 year 4 months
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