David Drager
Principal Software Engineer & Product Manager at Matter Alpha
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Drager is a Principal Software Engineer and product-focused technical leader with over 20 years building and operating large-scale, security-critical platforms and a track record as CTO and VP of Technology for global properties serving 100M+ monthly users. He combines hands-on systems engineering—from Linux and low-latency networking to cloud services and PyTorch-powered ML—with product strategy to guide ideas from prototype to resilient production. At Franklin Smart he designs AI-enabled products, high-throughput data pipelines, and dependable CI/CD and monitoring systems; previously he led XDA’s migration of a 10M-member forum with zero downtime and hardened infrastructure under heavy load. Comfortable in regulated environments and datacenter-hardware integrations, he brings unusual depth across hardware, networking, and software stacks, and a knack for turning complex performance and security constraints into pragmatic, user-facing solutions. Based in Philadelphia, he also founded Matter Alpha to help users navigate smart-home ecosystems, showing a persistent focus on translating technical complexity into accessible products.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Telecommunications, BA, Telecommunications at Penn State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (120)
passportjs10
native-android10
linux9
chromium9
browser9
windows9
google-account9
php-class9
brave-browser9
brave9
macos9
authentication8
device-detection8
oauth8
php8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
xda/Notices
Jun 2013 - Mar 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 5 pushes in 7 years 10 months
ddrager/go-pi
Dec 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years
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