David Mcgaffin
Senior UI Engineer At Posit at Posit PBC
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Mcgaffin is a Senior UI Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building user interfaces and full-stack web applications, currently shaping front-end experiences at Posit in Boston. He has shipped production UIs across industries—from donor management for non-profits to carrier-class email, video CMS, and CI/CD dashboards—using HTML, JavaScript, node.js, Ruby on Rails, and native mobile tools. Known for taking projects from wireframes to polished products, he’s delivered everything from Chrome extensions and Sinatra services to iOS/Android demos and Docker-based UI surfaces. His background includes long tenures at Brightcove and Codeship where he bridged front-end craftsmanship with backend integrations and tooling. A lifelong learner, he consistently expands his toolkit across languages and platforms while favoring pragmatic solutions that improve developer and user workflows. Based in Boston, he combines deep legacy-system experience with modern UI/UX sensibilities to drive robust, user-focused interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Speech Communication, B.A., Speech Communication at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (63)
react-native10
android10
react10
ios9
codeship9
cross-platform9
mobile9
api9
permalink8
slug8
lua8
vim8
plugin8
neovim8
text-editor8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
codepogo/shipscope
Sep 2014 - Jun 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 10 months
codeshipmonitorbuildschromechrome-extension
mcgaffin/circli
Jul 2019 - Feb 2023
Circle CI build status from a terminal
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 7 months
build-statuscircle-cistatusterminalcli
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