David Wasserstrum
Software Engineer at Uber
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Wasserstrum is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years building reliable, scalable systems across startups and large tech firms, currently at Uber in Seattle. His background spans distributed systems at Microsoft, server-side product features at Foursquare (mayorships, badges, fraud detection), and mobile payments and NFC at a startup, giving him a rare blend of infrastructure and product-facing experience. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as uber/tchannel, where he improved RPC multiplexing code and hardened error handling—indicating a focus on stability and careful code review. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions across the stack, he also brings a global perspective from extensive world travel that informs user-centered engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Experience, World Culture, Experience, World Culture at World Travels -- Including India, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, East Europe, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, ....Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (7)
nodejs10
javascript10
apidoc9
api9
error-handling8
rpc7
testing6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uber/tchannel
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
network multiplexing and framing protocol for RPC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 13 days
Contributions summary:David contributed to the `uber/tchannel` repository, a network multiplexing and framing protocol for RPC. Their work focused on the `node/as/http.js` file, implementing and modifying the `forwardToTChannel` function. They added functionality for passing tchannel options and a callback, along with adding more verbose error handling. The user also addressed code review comments and reverted a previous change, indicating a focus on stability and refinement.
rpcnetworkingmultiplexingframingtcp
davewhat/tchannel
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 month
rpcnetworkingmultiplexingframingtcp
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