David Winegar
Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Winegar is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building performant front-end and visualization systems, currently at Figma after leading AV Analysis and Webviz efforts at Cruise. He specializes in web-based 3D visualization and rendering—contributing substantial fixes, refactors, and feature work to the popular Webviz/regl-worldview codebase, including hitmap/GLTF fixes, instanced rendering, and GLText atlas improvements. As a former manager and tech lead, he has combined product stewardship with hands-on engineering to improve download performance, reliability, and developer ergonomics for large-scale vehicle visualization. Comfortable across the full stack, he has a track record of taking products from 0→1 by working directly with customers (Streets at Remix) and shipping pragmatic, test-backed solutions. A practical tinkerer at heart, he invites scrutiny of his dotfiles as a window into his workflow and tooling preferences.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Duke University
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Github Skills (7)
javascript10
react10
gltf9
webgl9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cruise-automation/webviz
Jul 2019 - Feb 2022
web-based visualization libraries
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 39 commits, 101 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `regl-worldview` package, focusing on the development and refactoring of components used for web-based visualization. They fixed bugs related to hitmap interactions and GLTF rendering, indicating a strong understanding of the underlying rendering logic. The user implemented new features and refactored the Worldview command interactivity API, including instanced rendering capabilities, and added tests. They made improvements to the GLText component, allowing the use of a pregenerated atlas.
reactjavascriptweb-baseddata-visualizationvisualization
davidswinegar/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:16 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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