David Meents
Lead Software Engineer at Allergan Data Labs
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Meents is a Lead Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with over a decade of experience delivering full-stack web platforms and developer tooling across startups and enterprise teams. He has a track record of shipping production systems using Next.js, TypeScript, Node/Nest, Kubernetes and AWS, and has driven developer productivity through CLI and templating tools that cut project bootstrap time from days to minutes. David has balanced customer-facing work—APIs, analytics, and compliance dashboards for finance and healthcare—with consumer-focused products like a mental-health-aware task manager and a board-game social platform. He contributes to open-source (notably a yarn-era semantic-release plugin) and combines hands-on coding with mentorship and team leadership. Known for pragmatic engineering, he often bridges frontend experience design with backend operational concerns to deliver reliable, scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Incomplete Astrophysics, Incomplete Astrophysics at Florida Institute of TechnologyHigh School General with Advanced Courses, High School General with Advanced Courses at Bradley Bourbonnais Community Highschool
English
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Github Skills (82)
yarn-berry10
decorator10
yarn210
javascript9
react-i18next9
lru9
facebook9
yarn39
typescript9
i18next9
server-side8
nest8
publish8
testing8
caching8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dmeents/picodegallo
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
CLI tool for generating boilerplate based off of customizable templates.
Contributions:61 releases, 4 reviews, 14 PRs in 4 months
templateboilerplatescaffoldingtemplatescli-tool
dmeents/maestro
Jul 2022 - May 2023
Repository for shared project configs like eslint, typescript, prettier, etc
Contributions:92 releases, 5 reviews, 10 PRs in 10 months
rollupeslintconfigseslint-configtypescript-eslint
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