David Smith
Software Developer at Gumtree.com
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Smith is a seasoned Software Developer based in London with 12 years of experience building backend systems and enterprise applications. Currently at Gumtree.com, he brings a pragmatic mix of production-grade engineering and security-minded development, informed by earlier J2EE/Oracle work and leadership as a CTO/co-founder. His open-source contributions include backend and security engineering on a Plutus language implementation, demonstrating hands-on experience with blockchain tooling, UTXO serialization, and wallet APIs. Comfortable across legacy enterprise stacks and modern distributed systems, he focuses on robust data encoding and secure service interfaces. Colleagues benefit from his blend of practical delivery experience and a curiosity for emerging decentralized technologies.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Glasgow
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
smart-contracts10
haskell10
blockchain10
binary-serialization9
cryptography8
compojure6
git6
clojure6
eventstore6
functional-programming6
git-revert6
lighttable6
github6
immutability6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
IntersectMBO/plutus
Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
The Plutus language implementation and tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:528 reviews, 459 commits, 421 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:David implemented an HTTP server with wallet API endpoints running actions against in-memory wallets, changing the binary serialization of UTXO types, and changed to derive generic versions of UTXO. This indicates involvement in blockchain and smart contract technology. The focus on binary serialization and derivation suggests attention to the security of data encoding.
programming-languageblockchainsmart-contractsplutus
shmish111/purescript-bridge
May 2019 - Feb 2021
Create PureScript datatypes from Haskell datatypes
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
haskelldatatypespurescript
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