David Westwood
Senior Software Engineer at Foundation Source
American Fork, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Westwood is a senior software engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building scalable, data-driven backend systems and improving developer workflows. He has driven major backend tooling and enterprise integration efforts at Foundation Source, trained and onboarded junior developers, and modernized legacy codebases to accelerate team productivity. Previously he delivered a 10x simulation speedup at Wavetronix by pinpointing performance bottlenecks and expanded feature capability with a novel corridor simulation. Comfortable across stacks—from React frontends to C# and Python backends—he emphasizes testability, documentation, and observable performance gains. Based in American Fork, Utah, he pairs a near-perfect academic record in computer science with a practical knack for turning messy legacy systems into secure, production-ready platforms.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.99, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.99 at Utah Valley University
Github Skills (9)
simulator8
react7
apollo7
rust6
javascript6
realtime5
graphql5
typescript4
starship2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
walkwithchrist/missionary-tools
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:30 reviews, 20 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 months
walkwithchrist/missionarytools
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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