David Kagan
Software Engineer II at Bestow
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kagan is a Software Engineer II with three years of hands-on experience building full-stack systems using Go, Node.js, TypeScript, and modern front-end libraries. He has shipped production services and microservices across cloud platforms—designing REST APIs, event-driven systems with Kafka, and backup/restore tooling for AWS and Azure—while improving observability and performance with Grafana, Loki, and Rollbar. At startups and in open-source projects he blends fast iteration (Deno, Fresh, Preact) with solid engineering practices like Terraform and test-driven development, and he’s given a tech talk on Deno frameworks. A former ER nurse, David brings calm under pressure and a service-oriented mindset to cross-functional product work, and outside of work he enjoys contributing to OSS, home bartending, and gaming.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
CodesmithBachelor's degree, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, Bachelor's degree, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse at Pace UniversityB.Sc. (Hons.), Biology, B.Sc. (Hons.), Biology at Queen's University
Github Skills (15)
bitmap10
bitmaps10
pilosa9
database9
sql9
go9
docker8
big-data8
machine-learning8
react5
deno4
jekyll-theme3
charts2
component-library2
finance2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DKagan07/go-pass
Apr 2025 - Feb 2026
Contributions:13 PRs, 68 pushes, 22 branches in 9 months
DKagan07/neovim-config
Feb 2024 - Oct 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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