Summary
David Castner is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, specializing in Python, TypeScript, and React. At Merck he maintains a proprietary reporting tool—fixing UI issues, crafting HTML/CSS dashboards, authoring AWS Glue pipelines, and optimizing Oracle SQL for performance—while serving as a repository SME and workshop lead. He founded a small studio to deliver React sites and AWS backends for local clients, and earlier led web architecture for manufacturing and IoT tracking apps. A self-taught digital artist and math enthusiast, he blends creative problem solving (3D modeling, Unity, Substance Painter) with practical automation skills like Selenium-driven testing and data transformation. Based in Boca Raton, he pairs hands-on coding with cross-team mentorship and an unusual side focus on chess strategy and Jupyter-based math explorations that inform his analytical approach.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science at Montgomery County Community College
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Abington
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University