Davis Silverman
Software Engineer at The Prospective Company
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavis Silverman is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack systems and data-focused tooling, now working in New York City after starting in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He combines academic rigor from PhD studies at Syracuse University with hands-on industry delivery across geospatial and analytics sectors at companies like Maxar and HumanGeo. Davis contributes to notable open-source work such as the FINOS Perspective project, where he implemented cross-language plugin priority management to improve rendering order for large and streaming datasets. Comfortable touching JavaScript, Rust, and backend systems, he excels at integrating visualization components into production workflows. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and a taste for clever reuse (“good coders borrow, great coders steal”), he brings both research depth and product-driven execution to data-intensive engineering challenges.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Syracuse UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science at University of Maryland
English
Github Skills (9)
plugin-development10
data-visualizations10
javascript10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
rust10
analytics9
webassembly9
html8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
finos/perspective
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
A data visualization and analytics component, especially well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 1 commit, 20 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Davis contributed to the Perspective project by implementing features related to plugin priority management within the viewer. They added a plugin registry with priority to the plugin API, and modified the datagrid plugin to have a higher priority. The user's changes involved modifications to JavaScript, Rust, and HTML files, demonstrating a cross-functional approach to developing and integrating the Perspective visualization component. This work improved the control of plugin rendering order.
visualizationanalyticspythondata-and-visualizationpyodide
sinistersnare/sinistersnare.github.io
Dec 2017 - Jan 2025
My site, can be found at https://drs.is
Contributions:12 PRs, 130 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 1 month
drsmy-site
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