David Durst
Software Development Manager at Mozilla
Herndon, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Durst is a product-minded Software Development Manager with 15 years of engineering and leadership experience, currently shaping backend services for Firefox at Mozilla. He has a proven record of transforming team morale and delivery cadence across distributed, cross-functional teams, and has led diverse efforts from privacy & security products to web extensions and core browser systems. Comfortable both in hands-on engineering (Go, React, TypeScript, gRPC) and strategic program management, he balances roadmap planning, incident leadership, and cross-org coordination to ship reliable user-facing features. Prior roles include senior full-stack engineering in healthcare and director-level technology leadership at agencies, reflecting deep experience in architecture, operations, and client-facing delivery. Unusually, he pairs technical rigor with a creative background in music theory and composition—and can learn songs by ear—bringing a pragmatic yet curious mindset to problem solving.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music Music Theory and Composition, Bachelor of Music Music Theory and Composition at University of DelawareBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (80)
backend10
django10
firefox10
dynamodb10
swift10
mozilla10
spanner10
passwords10
frontend10
language-bindings10
thunderbird9
browser9
statistics9
rust9
ios9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ddurst/fireplace
May 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches, 5 tags in 2 years 9 months
firefoxmarketplacefrontend
ddurst/asm
Jun 2015 - Feb 2026
Contributions:59 pushes, 3 branches in 10 years 10 months
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