David Schuler
Forward Deployed Engineer at Bland
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Schuler is a Forward Deployed Engineer with 14 years of engineering experience spanning data, backend/API, and co-founded startup roles across fintech and ad tech. He progressed from internships at NASA, Oracle, and MaxPoint to data engineering at Capital One and backend work at Commenda, now applying that cross-domain expertise at Bland. Trained as a mechanical engineer at NC State, he brings systems-level thinking to software problems, blending hardware-aware rigor with scalable data and API design. His background founding Portal Technologies gives him an entrepreneur’s instinct for shipping product under constraints and bridging technical and business priorities. Based in San Francisco, he is comfortable operating at the intersection of data pipelines, APIs, and forward-deployed client solutions. A detail that sets him apart is consistent early exposure to high-risk, precision engineering projects (high-powered rocketry and NASA internships) that inform his methodical approach to software reliability.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Leesville Road High School
English, French
Stackoverflow
2,395reputation
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java
top-5%
jvm
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Github Skills (15)
jvm10
java9
netcore6
eclipse6
wpf6
testing6
mutation-testing5
mutation5
neovim3
client-library3
vote2
qt2
python1
image-recognition1
image-processing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
david-schuler/javalanche
Dec 2011 - Mar 2012
Efficient Mutation Testing for Java
Contributions:26 commits in 2 months
testingjavamutation-testingmutation
david-schuler/slam_votes
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
pythonimage-recognitionrecognitionimage-processingvote
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