David Vail
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
City of Little Falls, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Vail is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on web platforms, currently leading frontend work for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security. He combines deep front-end expertise—React, TypeScript, PatternFly—with robust backend and DevOps skills from building AI/ML platforms using Spring Boot, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, and containerized CI/CD pipelines. His career began in geospatial and mobile apps, giving him a practical knack for mapping and visualization technologies like Leaflet, PostGIS, and Cesium. A believer in the open web, he also contributes to PureScript testing and has ported complex UIs to TypeScript in high-profile projects such as the StackRox Kubernetes security platform. David mentors junior engineers and emphasizes developer experience while driving reliability through automated testing and containerization. He’s currently exploring static type systems and functional programming in Haskell and PureScript to bring stronger correctness guarantees to production code.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at SUNY Polytechnic InstituteA.A.S. - Computer Network Technician Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, A.A.S. - Computer Network Technician Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Herkimer County Community College
English
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Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
purescript10
typescript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
functional-programming10
typescripts10
patternfly10
react10
test-automation10
algebraic-data-types9
data-structures8
data-structure8
clojure6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stackrox/stackrox
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2079 reviews, 290 commits, 1568 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:David focused on updating the user interface components within the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform. Their commits primarily involved refactoring and updating the layout and navigation of several pages, including Access Control, Violations table and detail pages, and Integration pages. The modifications involved a shift towards PatternFly design principles and also included porting existing code to TypeScript.
kubernetes-securitysecuritycontainersk8skubernetes
purescript-contrib/purescript-book
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Sources for the PureScript book
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the repository by adding and modifying unit tests for PureScript code. Their work involved creating test cases for various exercises related to algebraic data types, pattern matching, and type classes. They focused on ensuring code correctness by writing tests for functions such as `factorial`, `binomial`, and methods within custom typeclasses. The contributions demonstrate a focus on comprehensive testing to validate the functionality of PureScript code within this educational project.
purescript
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