David Sevilla Martin is a passionate software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience spanning open-source forum development, fintech conversational AI, and full-stack web work. Raised in Spain and based in Amherst, MA, he contributed front-end enhancements and UX improvements to the notable Flarum forum project as a core developer, and later built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation backend and React frontend during an Amazon Propel SDE internship. Currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science at UMass Amherst, David combines practical internships at Amazon and Ikos Rent with real-world stagehand experience, reflecting curiosity beyond pure coding. Known for thoughtful UI polish, lazy-loading optimizations, and refactoring discipline, he focuses on meaningful, user-centered engineering.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at North Allegheny High School
Simple forum software for building great communities.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:167 reviews, 449 commits, 125 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Flarum forum software, implementing and modifying UI components. They made changes to the appearance, including color customizations and styling, and also worked on enhancing the user experience, such as changing the tab title after renaming a discussion and adding lazy loading to emoji. Furthermore, the user updated and maintained the codebase by fixing bugs and refactoring code.
Contributions:5 releases, 24 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 3 months
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