David Witten
Member Of Technical Staff at Noon AI
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Witten is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Noon AI focusing on AI research out of Washington, D.C. He has a strong internship pedigree across top tech firms—Google, Facebook/Instagram, and Citadel—where he worked on OpenTelemetry, integrity platforms, core media infrastructure, and quantitative strategies. An active open-source contributor, David has contributed meaningful fixes and architectural refactors to the widely used OpenTelemetry JavaScript client, improving collector exporters for both Node and browser environments and advancing metric export infrastructure. His background blends systems-level engineering, observability tooling, and applied research, enabling him to bridge production engineering and research-driven AI work. David studied computer science at Stanford and brings a knack for turning lower-level protocol and exporter issues into stable, reusable components.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Montgomery Blair High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (8)
opentelemetry10
nodejs10
javascript10
telemetry10
metric10
browser9
distributed-tracing9
api8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 45 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry JavaScript client by fixing issues related to default endpoints in the collector exporter, specifically for Node.js and browser environments. They also refactored code by renaming `CollectorExporter` to `CollectorTraceExporter`. Moreover, the user implemented features for the Collector Metric Exporter, including the creation of `CollectorMetricExporterBase` and the addition of transformation functions. This work demonstrates their involvement in enhancing the core functionality and structure of the OpenTelemetry project.
apijavascript-clientjavascripttelemetryotel
davidwitten/opentelemetry-js
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
OpenTelemetry JavaScript API and SDK
Contributions:117 pushes, 16 branches in 2 months
apijavascriptsdkotelopentelemetry-javascript
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