David Stancu
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Compute) at dbt Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Stancu is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in compute with 12 years of experience building distributed systems, data pipelines, and full-stack applications across startups and enterprises. He has led architecture and delivery for petabyte-scale systems using technologies like Apache Spark, Kafka, Rust, Arrow, and DataFusion, and recently focuses on compute engines at dbt Labs. David blends hands-on coding—from robotics and embedded work to front-end React apps—with team enablement, CI/CD automation, and platform design that speeds iteration. He’s contributed to open-source tooling in the Ruby API ecosystem (improving pagination for Rails/Grape) and frequently experiments publicly at dstancu.xyz. Known for pragmatic solutions in high-availability environments, he also brings blockchain and fintech experience, having built Hyperledger Fabric integrations and real-time financial search systems. Based in New York, he enjoys tinkering with new stacks and turning exploratory prototypes into production-grade services.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Romanian
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Github Skills (15)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
testing9
apidoc9
api9
activerecord9
kaminari8
shell6
telnet6
qt6
rails-engines6
activeadmin6
rubygems6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
davidcelis/api-pagination
May 2018 - Jul 2018
:page_facing_up: Link header pagination for Rails and Grape APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the `api-pagination` library for Ruby on Rails and Grape APIs. They made several changes to improve code clarity and maintainability. The contributions involved adding support for ActiveRecord and testing different pagination strategies, including Kaminari and WillPaginate, and ensuring their correct implementation.
headerpaginationrailslink-headerruby
mach-kernel/mail-classifier
Dec 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
apipursuitelixirbackedotp
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