David Neil
Staff Software Engineer at Lucid Software
Provo, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Neil is a Staff Software Engineer in Provo, Utah with eight years of hands-on experience building and optimizing production JavaScript systems at Lucid. He has progressed through multiple engineering levels at Lucid, moving from intern to staff engineer, demonstrating sustained impact on product and architecture. David contributes to high-profile open-source tooling like Google's Closure Compiler, improving correctness and optimization for modern JS features such as spread operators and arrow functions. He combines compiler-level attention to correctness with practical product engineering, routinely addressing tricky edge cases and annotation handling that improve developer experience at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances deep technical craft with reliable delivery across front-end and tooling domains.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University
Github Skills (7)
closure10
google-closure-compiler10
javascript10
type-checking10
optimization10
javas8
java8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
google/closure-compiler
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
A JavaScript checker and optimizer.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (focusing on JavaScript compiler optimization and maintenance)
Software Engineer (focusing on JavaScript compiler optimization and maintenance)Contributions:1 review, 3 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the Google Closure Compiler project, focusing on improving the compiler's behavior and correctness. Their work includes fixing issues related to spread operators, arrow functions, and property reflection. The user also addressed inline method optimization and added features related to handling annotations within the compilation process. These changes aimed to enhance the compiler's accuracy and efficiency for JavaScript code.
checkerjavascriptoptimizationtypecheckingoptimizer
DavidANeil/lucid-vscode-jasmine
May 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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