Summary
David Pariag is a software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on performance, low-latency systems, and computing at scale, currently contributing at Meta from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a strong C/C++ and Python background building latency-sensitive trading platforms and multi-threaded network packet processing systems that optimize CPU, memory, and end-to-end latency. His career spans performance engineering leadership at Sandvine and hands-on systems research at the University of Waterloo, giving him deep expertise in OS interfaces, threading, and event-driven architectures. Known for blending rigorous optimization with practical engineering, he also implements secure, auditable cloud services for financial workflows. Colleagues would describe him as a teacher-engineer who enjoys both learning new techniques and mentoring others to write faster, more reliable code.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BMath MMath Computer Science, BMath MMath Computer Science at University of Waterloo