David Ackerman
Summit, New Jersey, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Ackerman is a founding engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable backend systems and developer-facing tools, currently focused on shipping client libraries and backend code generation at Stainless. He previously scaled core payment APIs and led product initiatives at Stripe, and has deep experience in distributed systems, schedulers, and zero-downtime infrastructure from roles at Meteor and Guidewire. David combines hands-on engineering across languages and stacks—from Go-based schedulers and Java services to Haskell-built websites—with product-minded work like automating company formation at Stripe Atlas. He runs Fullstack Industries, a Haskell-powered site for practical engineering education, reflecting a rare mix of production-grade systems work and pedagogy. Based in Summit, NJ, he prefers not to be contacted about opportunities but remains focused on developer tooling that makes APIs easier to consume.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Michigan State University
Stackoverflow
12,679reputation
1.8mreached
9answers
6questions
java
top-1%
sql
top-1%
datetime
top-1%
Github Skills (75)
datetime10
terraform10
sql10
java10
cloudflare10
terraform-provider10
purescript9
sdk9
api9
linux8
3d8
windows8
cloudflare-api8
2d8
typesafe8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dackerman/nixos-config
Jan 2015 - Aug 2025
Contributions:101 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 9 months
dackerman/demostore-node
Feb 2025 - Jul 2025
Contributions:43 PRs, 46 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.