David Meade is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland with a decade of experience specializing in React-driven consumer web products and frontend architecture. At Mars Petcare he leads the consumer web team for Kinship, architecting subscription/payment flows, CMS-driven editorial features with Contentful and Gatsby, and spearheading localization and compliance efforts for new markets. He previously scaled acquisition-focused frontends at Nike and Crowd Cow, migrating large apps to modern React patterns and integrating complex third-party services like Stripe and Shopify. Outside work he channels his product instincts into co-founding indie game studio Lever Games and maintains hands-on hobbyist interests—from ham radio to lock picking—that reflect a pragmatic tinkerer’s mindset and a knack for multidisciplinary problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Portland State University
Highschool deploma, Highschool, Highschool deploma, Highschool at Carpinteria High School
Associate’s Degree, Computer Science, Associate’s Degree, Computer Science at Portland Community College
Contributions:48 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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