David Najork
Founding Software Engineer at FireStrike
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Najork is a founding software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack, data-driven products from prototype to production. A Palo Alto native and University of Arizona CS alum, he has led end-to-end efforts—data ingestion, APIs, UIs, and scheduled jobs—at early-stage startups and at Amazon, where he shipped mobile features and collaboration experiences. He enjoys working at the intersection of engineering and ML/vision, having contributed to computer-vision research tools in academia and production-grade search, enrichment, and publish pipelines at startups. Pragmatic about reliability and observability, he focuses on idempotent data pipelines, operational guardrails, and scalable publishing for programmatic content. Colleagues rely on him to translate customer workflows into robust technical designs and shipping predictable, timezone-aware automation at scale.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaEngineering, Engineering at University of WashingtonComputer Science, Computer Science at Foothill College
Spanish, English, German
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Github contributions (5)
maritime-whale/maritime-whale
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 265 commits, 41 pushes in 3 months
cs210-fall17/section2-team-1
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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