David Plass
Sr. Software Engineer at Google
New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Plass is a senior software engineer with over 20 years of experience building scalable, testable systems across startups, consulting, and product teams, currently at Google in New York. He brings deep Java and object-oriented design expertise alongside practical Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Google App Engine experience, often applying design patterns and testable-code practices to both front-end (GWT/AngularJS/Polymer) and back-end work. His career includes principal engineering at WeWork and long tenures at Google where he bridged client and server concerns, plus earlier leadership in medical imaging and integration projects that required ISO-9001 and FDA-aligned documentation. Comfortable in Scrum environments, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and architecture, having managed teams and delivered regulated software and complex integrations. Notably, his background mixes formal CS training from MIT and NYU with an earlier start in plant biology, reflecting a broad analytical foundation and adaptability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design, reliable delivery, and translating legacy constraints into maintainable modern systems.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at New York University (NYU)BS, Computer Science and Engineering, BS, Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)N/A, Plant biology, N/A, Plant biology at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (97)
verilog10
extensible10
pipeline10
scalable10
build-system10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
compiler-optimization9
abstract-syntax-tree9
compile-time9
optimizers9
synthesis9
xls9
compiler-construction9
java9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dplassgit/d2lang
Nov 2022 - Feb 2025
D2 is a strongly-typed, statically-typed, (mostly) inferred-type compiled language.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 17 PRs in 2 years 4 months
compilercompiler-constructioncompiler-optimizationoptimizersprogramming-language
dplassgit/arduino
Sep 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:97 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 4 months
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