David Lucia
CTO & Co-Founder at TV Labs
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Lucia is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience designing and shipping scalable systems across media, sports betting, finance, and developer tooling. As a co-founder of TV Labs and former VP of Engineering at Simplebet, he built live data, pricing, and ML-driven in-play betting platforms and led teams through acquisition-scale challenges. A seasoned full-stack engineer from Bloomberg and a founding developer of The Outline’s CMS and ad platform, he blends deep backend expertise in Elixir and Rust with production-facing frontend work. Active in the Elixir community, he’s spoken at major conferences and contributed to high-profile open-source projects such as Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, and Floki, improving parsing, telemetry, and developer docs. He combines hands-on implementation (including authoring a Rust-based ML framework at Simplebet) with product-minded technical advising, making him equally comfortable in code reviews and executive strategy.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Binghamton UniversityHigh School, High School at Roxbury High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
javascript10
cqrs10
event-handling10
erlang10
handlebars10
elixir-mix10
elixir10
testing10
css-selectors10
event-sourcing10
html-parser10
binding10
html10
web-framework10
rust10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
philss/floki
Jan 2018 - Nov 2022
Floki is a simple HTML parser that enables search for nodes using CSS selectors.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 18 comments in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `floki` repository by addressing code style issues, fixing bugs, and enhancing the codebase's functionality. They focused on improving the HTML parsing logic within the `Floki.Selector` and `Floki.FilterOut` modules. Additionally, the user made changes to improve code consistency, added a configuration option for `raw_html`, and fixed Dialyzer issues, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability.
erlangselectorscssjavascriptcss-selectors
phoenixframework/phoenix
Jul 2017 - Oct 2020
Peace of mind from prototype to production
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 9 PRs, 30 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the JavaScript front-end of the Phoenix Framework project. Their work included documenting and enhancing the `phoenix.js` library, specifically focusing on the Socket and Channel classes. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving code documentation through JSDoc, correcting grammar, and refining example usage. Additionally, the user implemented an API for updating Channel reconnect join parameters.
realtimepeacephoenix-frameworkelixirprototype
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