David Teather
Software Engineer at Clear Street
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Teather is a software engineer with eight years of experience building data-driven systems, scalable ETL pipelines, and security-minded tooling across startups and enterprise teams. He led the development of an unofficial TikTok Python API adopted broadly by academia and industry, authored high-throughput Spark jobs that processed over a billion records, and built ApplicantAtlas as an open-source event-management platform. His security research has driven real product improvements after uncovering privacy vulnerabilities, and he’s taught GitHub Codespaces to engineers through collaborations with LinkedIn and GitHub. Comfortable across Python, Go, Scala, and systems-level tooling (including custom lexers and bytecode for query languages), he balances production engineering with open-source impact and educational outreach. Based in New York, he’s currently focused on clearing and settlement systems while continuing to contribute to developer-facing projects.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (15)
json-parser10
json10
jsonp10
api10
selenium-ide10
parsing10
selenium10
python10
apidoc10
webscraping10
http-request10
syntaxerror6
javascript6
europe-pmc6
database6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
davidteather/TikTok-Api
May 2019 - Oct 2022
The Unofficial TikTok API Wrapper In Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:120 releases, 21 reviews, 643 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:David appears to be responsible for building the core logic of the unofficial TikTok API wrapper. The commits demonstrate the implementation of two main methods within the `TikTokapi` class: `trending` and `userPosts`. These methods involve making requests to TikTok's servers and parsing the responses. The user also demonstrates knowledge of setting up and using selenium and browsermob-proxy for signature extraction.
tiktok-downloaderpythontiktokapitiktoktiktok-signature
davidteather/BackpackTf-API
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Unoffical Backpack.tf wrapper in python
Contributions:5 releases, 38 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year
apipythonunofficaltrading-botteam-fortress
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