David Pankros
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Pankros is a software engineer and technical leader with over a decade of hands-on engineering experience and a broader 20+ year professional arc that spans law, startups, and hardware-aware hobbies. Trained with a JD and a Master of Computer Science from UIUC, he blends legal rigor—as a former patent lawyer—with modern software practice to design auditable, reliable systems and navigate complex IP and product tradeoffs. Based in Orlando, he brings startup founder experience and a practical full-stack mindset to projects, shipping production-ready code while also thinking about business and compliance implications. An avid astrophotographer, David applies the same attention to detail and long-exposure patience to both imagery and debugging, making him comfortable with long-term projects and nuanced technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
JD, JD at University of Kansas School of LawMaster of Computer Science - MCS, Master of Computer Science - MCS at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (158)
javascript10
reactive-programming10
build-system10
nodejs10
mongodb10
npm10
react10
realtime9
zero-configuration9
discord9
indexing9
ambassador9
meteor9
rpc9
logstash8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dpankros/meteor-multipage-form
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 1 year 3 months
autoformnon-linearflowslinear
dpankros/cs410_project
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
Repo for UIUC CS410 Final Project
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 1 PR in 1 month
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