David Horak
Director Of Engineering at Tactable
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Horak is a results-driven engineering leader with nine years of experience building and scaling high-performing product teams from Vancouver. Currently Director of Engineering at Tactable, he has led cross-functional teams at Instawork and Briza, shipping marketplace features, commercial insurance integrations, and patented data-modeling IP while championing agile practices and developer tooling. He balances hands-on technical depth—authoring open-source TypeScript libraries and internal tooling—with strong people leadership, hiring, and mentorship processes that prioritize morale and career growth. David’s background ranges from founding an AR startup to developing proprietary web frameworks and complex integration platforms, evidencing a blend of entrepreneurial initiative and production-grade engineering discipline. Notably, he helped author a patent-backed unified underwriting data model and created shared validation libraries that reduced front/back-end redundancy.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Information technologies, High School Information technologies at Technical College of Information technologies, SOSE a SOU elektrotechniky Stribrniky
English, Czech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (54)
dsl10
insurance10
business-rules10
x1210
logic10
validation9
nested-routes9
css9
file-parser9
xhtml9
html9
parser8
router8
svelte8
simulation8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spaceavocado/librarian
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
A micro search library leveraging Boolean Operators, supporting Wildcard annotation within search terms.
Contributions:6 releases, 43 commits, 20 PRs in 23 days
leveragingsearch-enginenearest-neighborsbooleanwildcard
spaceavocado/goillogical
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
A micro conditional go engine used to parse the raw logical and comparison expressions, evaluate the expression in the given data context, and provide access to a text form of the given expressions.
Contributions:22 PRs, 39 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 1 month
expression-evaluator
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