David Kettler
Staff Software Engineer at Calm
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kettler is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building user-centered products and scaling engineering teams at companies like Calm and Patreon. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering, product design, and people management to deliver reliable, timely software while empowering engineers with end-to-end product understanding. At Patreon he led payments architecture that handled peaks of $40M/day and guided rapid team growth, retention, and clearer career paths. He favors distributed ownership, pragmatic processes, and cross-functional coaching to keep teams fast, low-friction, and motivated. Outside of engineering he’s an active music producer and studio engineer, bringing a creative, systems-oriented perspective informed by a Stanford Symbolic Systems degree. Known for being “on your side,” he pairs technical depth with empathy and a keen interest in philosophy, education, and linguistics.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Symbolic Systems: Cognitive Science, BS, Symbolic Systems: Cognitive Science at Stanford University
Spanish
Github Skills (111)
chainable10
api10
music10
json-api10
sequencer10
fetch10
patreon10
redux10
sound-processing10
oauth10
midi9
audio9
python9
federated9
wordpress-plugin9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
21echoes/4-big-knobs
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
Patreon/patreon-ruby
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
Interact with the Patreon API via OAuth
Contributions:24 commits, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years
oauthpatreon
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