David Zbarsky
Token Consumer at OpenAI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Zbarsky is a software engineer and operator with 4 years of professional experience who blends product-minded engineering with deep systems expertise, currently working as a Token Consumer at OpenAI. A Wharton and Penn Engineering dual-degree graduate, he has a track record of scaling backends and teams—from founding Clearstep and driving it to $1M ARR and enterprise customers, to rebuilding Vise’s backend for 1000x portfolio construction performance. At Dropbox he led cross-cutting infra projects that cut costs, sped queries, and removed millions of lines of dead code, and he has hands-on experience shipping reliable, secure systems for large customers in healthcare and finance. He’s comfortable across the stack and in leadership roles: hiring and mentoring engineers, instituting testing and reliability practices, and spinning up ML teams. Known on GitHub as a “Technology Wrangler,” he pairs pragmatic product judgment with low-level performance tuning and a history of shipping measurable improvements. Notably, he often focuses on operational maturity—fuzzing, regression on production data, and test-driven reductions in toil—that keep ambitious systems running.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics at The Wharton SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Russian, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (79)
gazelle10
tsc10
rustdoc10
extensible10
starlark10
dynamodb10
minifier10
rust10
scalable10
build-system10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
rule10
cgo10
file-generator10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DavidZbarsky-at/grafana-darwin-arm64
Feb 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 7 tags in 7 months
DavidZbarsky-at/rules_rust
Sep 2023 - May 2024
Rust rules for Bazel
Contributions:5 pushes in 8 months
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