David Skold
Code Coach at The Coder School Palo Alto
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Skold is a Code Coach in Mountain View with a decade of hands-on experience teaching programming and mentoring project-based learners while bringing a curious, cross-disciplinary perspective from film-making and self-taught computer architecture. He has taught Java and algorithm design as a college TA, guided K–adult learners through coding curricula at The Coder School, and applied practical security skills during a blockchain security internship focused on smart contract audits and penetration testing. Comfortable explaining emergent behavior in complex systems, he blends analytical rigor with creative problem-solving to demystify unexpected bugs and system interactions. His non-traditional path—cinematography to computer science—gives him a unique ability to communicate technical concepts visually and narratively, helping students and teams translate abstract ideas into working code.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Landmark CollegeAssociate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Foothill College
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HansLemurson/RoundSquare
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Freeciv tileset, clean un-cluttered graphics
Contributions:1 review, 13 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 2 months
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HansLemurson/Redstone-CPU
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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