David Sims
Front-End Engineer at Joyent
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDavid Sims is a Front-End Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering performant, user-focused web applications across entertainment, SaaS, and conservation sectors. He has led multiple Vue and React migrations, boosted front-end test coverage from near zero to ~80%, and built reusable component libraries and marketing sites that measurably improved engagement and revenue. Comfortable across the stack, David has implemented GraphQL/Apollo clients, end-to-end testing, and backend features for customer management and order forms to reduce custom work and speed onboarding. He blends product-minded engineering with mentorship—regularly conducting code reviews and lifting junior developers—and has experience founding a startup where he built recommendation algorithms and ecommerce integrations. Notably, his recent work at Cognitive Space and Joyent emphasizes pragmatic performance wins and maintainability improvements rather than flashy rewrites. He is not currently open to new opportunities.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
General Ed, General Ed at Santa Rosa Junior CollegeBachelor's Degree Media Arts, Bachelor's Degree Media Arts at California State University, ChicoMaria Carrillo High SchoolMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Washington State University
French, English
Stackoverflow
924reputation
346kreached
8answers
5questions
javascript
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react-native
top-5%
Github Skills (128)
react-component10
javascript9
recycle9
expressjs9
apng9
backend9
rest-api9
image9
react-native9
ios9
png9
react9
development-environment9
android9
jpeg9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
davidsims9t/math-notes
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
pacific-expeditors/dotcom
Jul 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:8 PRs, 176 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 11 months
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