David Hoff-vanoni
Lead Software Engineer at Topanga
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hoff-vanoni is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, distributed systems and mentoring global engineering teams from Portland, Oregon. He has led architecture and delivery at New Relic and Coplex, driving cross-functional initiatives and creating reusable starter kits, CI/CD pipelines, and fault-tolerant workflow platforms using React, GraphQL, Java, and AWS. Comfortable spanning the full stack, David blends hands-on implementation with clear technical documentation and empathetic team leadership to improve quality and delivery cadence. His open-source work includes a Zotero-to-Notion plugin where he implemented typed integrations, debounced syncing queues, and Notion API support—showing a knack for practical tooling that bridges research workflows and productivity apps. He pairs graduate research experience in interactive visualization with pragmatic product engineering, and is currently expanding into climate-focused software. Outside work he’s a husband and cat dad, hinting at a steady, collaborative approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Software for Climate, Software for Climate at Terra.doUniversity of California, San Diego
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
notion-api10
plugin-development10
typescript10
plugin10
notion10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
swift6
uikit6
routes6
ruby-on-rails6
uibutton6
autodesk-data-management6
devise6
autodesk-forge6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dvanoni/notero
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
A Zotero plugin for syncing items and notes into Notion
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 18 reviews, 160 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on implementing features for a Zotero plugin that syncs items and notes into Notion. They added preferences support, enabled syncing of items when added to a collection, and integrated with the Notion API to save item details. They also worked on improving the codebase by adding types for Zotero, extracting code into classes, and implementing a debounced queue for syncing.
syncingnotionnotion-databasezotero-synctypescript
dvanoni/spotify-saver
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
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