David Stern
Software Engineer at Warp
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Stern is a software engineer with 16 years of experience building high-scale, production systems, currently contributing to developer tooling at Warp from New York. He spent seven years as a Staff Software Engineer at YouTube where he led the live interactivity serving stack and APIs that processed millions of chat messages per second and scaled to streams with millions of viewers. Earlier roles at Google included expanding Gmail’s native ads platform, and his research background at Brown and Rutgers shows an early blend of statistical analysis and perceptual-algorithm work. David excels at growing single-team projects into multi-team platforms and balancing core infrastructure, client integrations, and release engineering. Known for pragmatic system design and operational ownership, he brings both deep hands-on engineering and experience guiding large, cross-functional engineering efforts.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Sc. B., Computer Science, Sc. B., Computer Science at Brown University
Github Skills (139)
sentry10
error-handler10
bash10
abstraction10
cocoa10
metal10
gpu10
runner10
portable10
cjk10
linux10
api10
sdk10
warp10
swift10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
warpdotdev/wgpu
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api.
Contributions:6 PRs, 26 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year
warpdotdev/sentry-cocoa
Mar 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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