Summary
David Ing is a Principal Software Developer with 11 years of industry experience and a PhD in Perceptual Systems from UT Austin, combining rigorous vision-science research with pragmatic systems engineering. He architects and implements media-focused backend services at Panopto, working across C#, C++, Python, SQL, Linux/Windows, AWS and specialized hardware. His background spans IoT big-data platforms, recommender systems, optical software re-architecture, and applied computer vision, reflecting a rare mix of research-grade statistical inference and production-grade engineering. Comfortable deep in native code or scripting, he particularly prefers C#/C++/Java while leveraging Python and bash when useful. Based in Kent, Washington, he brings a thoughtful, empirically driven approach to designing perception-aware systems and media pipelines—an outlook shaped by his dissertation work on natural scene statistics and ideal observer analysis.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Perceptual Systems, PhD, Perceptual Systems at The University of Texas at Austin
BA, Psychology, BA, Psychology at UC Santa Barbara