David Leston
Principal Software Engineer at Sureify
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Leston is a Principal Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 14 years of hands-on experience shaping web applications and distributed systems. He excels as an individual contributor who incrementally evolves architecture and processes by working closely with stakeholders to weigh trade-offs and deliver pragmatic solutions. Deeply versed in object-oriented design, enterprise integration patterns, and message-oriented systems, he builds frameworks and asynchronous, concurrent systems in Java, C#, SQL and JavaScript. His track record includes driving quality improvements—CI, static analysis, profiling—and consolidating legacy codebases to simplify operations and reduce maintenance. At Sureify and prior companies like Guidewire and Ebates he’s balanced feature delivery with architectural stewardship, often leading decommissioning and cross-team standardization efforts. Outside work he ships side projects too, notably an online Hanabi implementation, reflecting a curiosity for practical, user-facing systems.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
optimizer10
svg-files10
minification10
svg10
nodejs10
optimization10
cli10
svgo10
html6
java-streams6
travis-ci6
java6
api5
filesystem4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
davidleston/FirstRankCollector
Jun 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
davidleston/uniqueProperty
Jun 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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