David Whitaker
Director Of Platform Engineering
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Whitaker is a Denver-based software leader with a decade of experience building product-focused platforms and front-end experiences, currently serving as Director of Platform Engineering at Govly. He progressed from founding product engineer to director-level roles at Govly, blending hands-on engineering with team leadership and product strategy in an early-stage startup. Prior roles as a senior front-end engineer and a software engineering instructor reflect his ability to both ship user-facing features and teach complex concepts clearly. His background includes completing Turing School web application coursework and contributing front-end exercises on GitHub, showing a commitment to fundamentals and developer education. A psychology BS informs his communication-first approach to engineering management, helping translate technical trade-offs into actionable plans. He’s known for turning ambiguous problems into teachable, maintainable solutions that scale with growing teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Psychology at Indiana University BloomingtonCertificate of Web Application Development with Ruby Rails and JavaScript, Certificate of Web Application Development with Ruby Rails and JavaScript at Turing School of Software & Design
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Github Skills (11)
functionfs10
javascript10
parallel-arrays9
typed-array9
multidimensional-arrays9
conditional-statements9
dynamic-array9
arrayobject9
object-design8
object-model8
javascript-objects8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
turingschool-examples/frontend-mod-1-prework
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 18 commits, 5 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on completing and updating introductory exercises related to front-end development fundamentals. Their work included implementing code within JavaScript files to solve exercises in number operations, string manipulation, and boolean logic. They also addressed array manipulation, conditional statements, and object creation. Further commits show the user working on functions and variable assignments.
damwhit/giphyfavfav
Feb 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
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