David Shepard
Staff Software Engineer at GRAIL
Chico, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Shepard is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable data platforms and distributed systems, currently at GRAIL in Chico, California. He has deep expertise in big data tooling—Spark, Airflow—and has led data engineering efforts that handled terabyte-scale health data, including the LumiHealth Apple Watch project. His background spans academia and industry, with a PhD-era trajectory at UCLA where he bridged digital humanities research and cloud migration, SaaS integrations, and learning-platform tooling. Comfortable in languages from Python and Scala to JavaScript and Java, he combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership on cross-disciplinary teams. Notably, he has a record of translating research needs into production-grade systems and building QA frameworks to make large-scale data pipelines reliable.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (53)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hypercities/hypercities
Nov 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:22 commits in 1 year
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