Summary
David Hollenbeck is a Senior Demo Engineer based in Oakland with six years of full-stack ecommerce and product engineering experience, now shaping developer-facing demos at Shopify. A founder at heart, he co-founded StoCu—an app featured in Shopify’s Customer Account Extensions launch—and led product design, infrastructure, and UI work from concept to release. Prior roles include running a boutique agency (uCoast Web) and building subscription infrastructure serving over 100,000 customers at DateBox Club, giving him deep operational experience across frontend, backend, and fulfillment automation. He blends hands-on engineering with client-facing product management, translating ambiguous requirements into reliable shipping features. Trained in music industry and recording arts, he brings an uncommon mix of technical rigor and design sensibility to demo engineering. Colleagues describe his work as “mysterious and important,” reflecting a talent for solving behind-the-scenes problems that make products shine.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Industry and Technology - Recording Arts Option, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Industry and Technology - Recording Arts Option at California State University, Chico
English