David White
Lead Developer at Cornell University Affect and Cognition Lab - The Community Nostalgia Project
Loveland, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDavid White is a Lead Developer with nine years of full-stack experience building reliable MERN applications, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS deployment workflows from prototype to production. Based in Loveland, Colorado, he combines strong backend engineering—API design, testing frameworks, and deployment automation—with hands-on React front-end work to deliver responsive, interactive user experiences. He has contributed to notable open-source projects like the p5.js web editor, simplifying its build and download processes, and brings practical DevOps sensibilities to research settings such as Cornell’s Community Nostalgia Project. Known for thriving in fast-paced, collaborative teams, he pairs a mathematics and computer science background from the University of Colorado Boulder with a continual curiosity for experimental side projects.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (7)
file-handling10
javascript10
nodejs10
expressjs9
p5js8
pkce6
react6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
processing/p5.js-web-editor
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
The p5.js Editor is a website for creating p5.js sketches, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else! You can create, share, or remix p5.js sketches without needing to download or configure anything.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the project's build and deployment process. They replaced a custom zip building process with the JSZip package, simplifying the code. Additionally, the user addressed various issues related to external library handling and empty project downloads. The commits show backend modifications to the project controller, improving the project's stability and download functionality.
p5js
dwight9339/excursia
Mar 2023 - Mar 2024
An app for generating real-world experiences
Contributions:2 PRs, 160 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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