David Vitale
Software Engineer at Gusto
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDavid Vitale is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, cloud-native backends and data-driven systems across fintech, insurance, automotive, and geospatial domains. He has led high-impact projects—redesigning tax filing flows that lifted successful filings by 20% and architecting a policy migration system that processed 200K+ policies under spiky load, supporting rapid company growth. Comfortable across AWS serverless stacks, distributed systems, and operational excellence, he focuses on automation, correctness, and disciplined development practices. An active contributor to Esri’s widely used ArcGIS Python API, he has improved mapping samples to boost interactivity and usability for geospatial users. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he blends hands-on engineering with experimentation and metrics-driven product work. He’s constantly automating repetitive work and even jokes about one day automating the writing of this bio.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Saint Viator High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Marquette University
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Github Skills (10)
mappings10
python10
jupyter-notebook9
distutils6
npm-publish6
powerpoint6
npm6
anaconda6
png6
dbus6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/arcgis-python-api
Nov 2017 - Jan 2021
Documentation and samples for ArcGIS API for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 7 reviews, 337 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David focused on implementing fixes to hardcoded locations within example layers and dynamically focused the map by utilizing the `map.extent`. Their contributions involved modifying the `samples/your_first_notebook.ipynb` file, suggesting a focus on improving the functionality and interactivity of the map visualization within the ArcGIS API for Python. This indicates the user's work contributed to improving user experience and usability of the mapping tools.
apiarcgispythonjupyterlab-extensiondata-science
alvariusgames/bearcycle
Jul 2017 - Oct 2020
2D sidescroller about a rogue bear that learns to drive an ATV.
Contributions:18 releases, 117 commits, 88 pushes in 3 years 2 months
rogueatvsidescrollerbear
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