David Verdeguer
Software Engineer at GitHub
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Verdeguer is a software engineer with seven years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently contributing at GitHub after earlier roles at Semmle and SAP. He specializes in developer tooling and code-analysis workflows, notably contributing to the widely used CodeQL Action by improving language detection and configurable query behavior. Based in Valencia and educated at UPV with exchange study at HKUST, he blends international academic exposure with production-grade engineering. David's work shows attention to edge cases and developer ergonomics—he's implemented nuanced parsing of configuration fields like disable-default-queries to make analysis pipelines more robust. Colleagues benefit from his steady, detail-oriented approach to maintaining and evolving critical open-source automation.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Universitat Politècnica de València
Github Skills (6)
codeql10
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
cil7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
github/codeql-action
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
Actions for running CodeQL analysis
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 30 reviews, 150 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the codebase by addressing issues related to query language declarations, specifically related to missing or multiple languages, by modifying the `finalize-db.js` and `src/finalize-db.ts` files. The user implemented a feature to parse and utilize the `ignoreDefaultQueries` field, which was subsequently refactored to `disable-default-queries`. Additionally, the user made minor modifications to the code to address comments and merged branches.
code-scanningsemmle-qladvanced-securitycodeqlci
Daverlo/lgtm-jira-addon
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Plugin for Atlassian Jira that files issues for LGTM alerts
Contributions:96 pushes, 24 branches in 1 month
lgtmalertsjiraatlassian-jiraatlassian
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