David Young
Software Engineer (L5) - Network Business Unit at Nova Labs
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Young is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML, robotics, and full‑stack systems across startups and scale‑stage teams. Currently an L5 engineer in Nova Labs’ Network Business Unit, he has led end‑to‑end efforts from sensor and LiDAR software to large‑scale document digitization, designing architectures, ML‑ops, and closed‑loop training pipelines that moved research into customer‑facing products. He excels at translating state‑of‑the‑art deep learning into reliable, automated systems—frequently owning discovery, prototyping, and deployment—and has shipped multi‑tenant IoT and enterprise solutions used by Fortune 500 customers. Beyond code, he champions pragmatic agile practices, product thinking, and hands‑on collaboration that speed iteration. Outside of work he blends data‑driven design with maker skills—building physical projects, music, and outdoor adventures—reflecting a restless curiosity that informs his engineering.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science and Engineering Biomedical Engineering Computer Science Electrical & Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science and Engineering Biomedical Engineering Computer Science Electrical & Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (200)
threejs10
language-model10
datasets10
3d10
cpp10
nvidia-docker10
labeling10
onnx10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
nlp10
data-labeling10
semantic-segmentation10
image-labeling10
nodejs10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dcyoung/r3f-audio-visualizer
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
An audio visualizer built with react and THREE.js
Contributions:92 commits, 63 PRs, 186 pushes in 1 year 1 month
reactbuilt-with-reactvisualizerreact-three-fiberaudio
dcyoung/BasicWebGL_Dancing_i
Sep 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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