David Larkin
Lead Software Engineer I, Frontend at Best Egg
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Larkin is a Lead Frontend Software Engineer with nine years of experience crafting polished, high-performance user interfaces across React and Vue ecosystems. Currently leading frontend efforts at Best Egg, he previously helped scale a financial health web app to over one million users by doubling engagement through improved mobile and desktop experiences. He pairs strong UI skills (HTML/CSS, Tailwind, Sass) with practical backend integration experience in Django/Python and a disciplined testing approach using Vitest. A pragmatic freelancer turned product engineer, he routinely converts pixel-perfect Figma designs into production-ready code and has built fast, accessible sites using Gatsby and Contentful. Based in New York, he blends creative attention to detail with measurable impact on user growth and reliability.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 2.1 (3.7 GPA equivalent), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 2.1 (3.7 GPA equivalent) at Waterford Institute of Technology
English
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Github Skills (4)
2d-game9
css5
react5
nextjs4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DavidCLarkin/2D-RPG-GAME
Oct 2017 - Nov 2021
RPG Top-Down 2D game made in Unity
Contributions:130 commits, 2 PRs, 114 pushes in 4 years 1 month
2d-game
DavidCLarkin/Hillfort
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 51 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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