David O'trakoun
Staff Software Engineer at Clear Street
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid O'trakoun is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 14 years of experience building high-performance front-end and full-stack systems for media and commerce. He has driven major rewrites and migrations—modernizing legacy codebases to React/Redux, improving performance, and shipping production features at Squarespace, Time Inc., Elite Daily and Clear Street. A pragmatic engineer who frequently pairs deep browser-performance tuning with ad-monetization and analytics integrations, he’s shipped large-scale front-end architectures and CI-driven workflows across high-traffic sites. He also contributes to open-source tooling, adding new linter support and bug fixes to the popular Neomake project for Neovim/Vim. Comfortable across JS, PHP, Python and build tooling, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and cross-team collaboration. Outside of product work, he’s delivered freelance consulting and taught web technologies, reflecting both entrepreneurial initiative and a focus on practical developer ergonomics.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science Information Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science Information Science at University at Albany
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Github Skills (30)
neovim10
vim10
linter10
linting10
mysql9
async9
primary-key9
twitter9
facebook9
filetype9
lint9
stylelint9
css-float9
markdown7
markdown-it7
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
neomake/neomake
Jun 2016 - Nov 2018
Asynchronous linting and make framework for Neovim/Vim
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 36 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributes to the `neomake` project by adding support for new linters, fixing bugs, and improving the overall functionality of the linting framework. Their work includes adding support for `scss-lint` and `sass-lint`, `vale`, `ktlint`, `flog`, `lintr`, and `haxe`. They also addressed issues related to settings retrieval and JSON parsing, alongside fixing other code-related problems within the codebase.
tuplelintersyntax-checkerasynchronousvim
davidosomething/git-my
Mar 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 23 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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