David S
Technical Lead at MCI USA
City of Elmira, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Shaffer is a Technical Lead with 11 years of hands-on experience building web applications and integrations, currently leading the SEM&I developer group at MCI USA. He brings deep Ruby on Rails and JavaScript expertise from roles at companies like TrueCar, Pexels, and HYP3R, with a track record in payments, SEO, APIs, and near-real-time social aggregation. A practical engineer who enjoys shipping product-focused solutions, he has moved between startup and scale-stage environments to improve user onboarding, admin tooling, and backend reliability. Based in Elmira, NY, he pairs a liberal arts background and musical training with a developer’s curiosity—off-hours you’ll find him gaming, playing music, running or hiking before enjoying a well-earned beer.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Berklee College of MusicBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Liberal Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Liberal Studies at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (176)
mvc10
ruby10
activerecord10
webextension10
debian10
sidekiq10
html10
shell10
cli10
browser-extension10
rails10
zsh10
docker10
selenium10
cli-app10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
flanger001/rails
Apr 2017 - May 2020
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:15 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 1 month
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
flanger001/gastracker
Jul 2015 - Sep 2020
Rails gas mileage tracking application
Contributions:6 PRs, 47 pushes, 14 branches in 5 years 2 months
railsrubytrackinggasmileage
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