David Ratajczak
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ratajczak is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails, UNIX, and JavaScript, currently contributing to GitHub from the Bay Area. He progressed from journalism and game operations into engineering leadership, having led the engineering team at Slice before joining GitHub in 2017. David combines strong backend expertise with practical product sensibility, informed by earlier roles as a reporter and game master that honed his communication and user-focused thinking. Based in Sacramento, he balances a demanding engineering career with life as a parent and avid gamer, bringing empathy and real-world priorities to team collaboration. Known for steady, long-term contributions rather than flashy headlines, he excels at maintaining and evolving reliable web platforms at scale.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Harvard UniversityComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at San Jose StateBranham High SchoolEnglish Major, English Major at Sonoma State
Github Skills (45)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
infinity7
rake7
ember-cli-addon6
solr6
addon5
ember-addon5
world-of-warcraft5
scroll5
javascript4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mockra/mockra.github.com
Jan 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 74 pushes in 7 years 8 months
mockra/loudred
Sep 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:60 commits, 21 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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