David Macpherson
Intern at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Leesburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Macpherson is an engineering-focused software and hardware intern based in Leesburg, Virginia, with hands-on experience building and maintaining full-stack systems used by thousands of students. He has led development for his high school’s site (Svelte frontend, custom CMS, RL Database backend), served as a core developer for FRC Team 5338 where he owned programming, testing, and wiring for competition robots, and currently interns at HHMI. Driven by a passion for automation and math/science, he treats engineering as a daily practice rather than just a job and seeks to contribute to cutting-edge scientific discovery. Notably, he has combined practical robotics work with documentation tooling to improve team collaboration and project traceability. With a track record of shipping end-to-end projects and a curiosity for both hardware and software, he’s positioning himself for research-adjacent engineering roles.
26 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, ENGINEERING, Graduated, High School Diploma, ENGINEERING, Graduated at Academies of LoudounAdvanced High School Diploma, Graduated, Advanced High School Diploma, Graduated at Tuscarora High School
Github Skills (10)
iterative8
robot7
java5
eclipse5
topology1
can-bus1
vtk1
sonic1
bus1
dbus1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
RoboLoco2017/Command-Based-Robot
Jan 2000 - Mar 2017
Contributions:39 commits in 17 years 5 months
iterativedueroboteclipsejava
team5338/team5338.github.io
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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