David Shirley
Software Engineer at YouTube
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Shirley is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building performant systems, currently contributing to YouTube from Oakland, California. His background spans performance engineering at HP and NetApp to leading SDK development and engineering teams at Apteligent (acquired by VMware), giving him a strong mix of low-level performance intuition and product-focused leadership. At YouTube he applies that expertise to large-scale services, and his open-source work includes enhancing the well-known httpbin project by implementing and hardening the /range endpoint for precise partial-content handling. Colleagues know him for refactoring messy code into maintainable, readable components and for pragmatic improvements that reduce operational surprises. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and brings a practical focus on measurable reliability and developer-friendly APIs.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (12)
http-server10
http10
api10
python10
flask10
flask-ask10
testing9
unit-testing8
unit-test8
pytest8
gdb6
stl6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
postmanlabs/httpbin
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
HTTP Request & Response Service, written in Python + Flask.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the development of the `/range` endpoint for the HTTPBin service, which allows clients to request specific byte ranges of data. Their work involved implementing the server-side logic for handling range requests, including parsing the `Range` header, generating data chunks, and setting the appropriate HTTP headers for partial content responses. They also improved the `/range` endpoint by modifying the behavior of the duration parameter and refactored the code to improve readability and maintainability.
apihttp-requestpythontestingflask
crittercism/crittercism-unity
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 1 tag in 11 days
unity3dunityunity-plugin
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