David Marby
Technical Advisor at Self-employed
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarDavid Marby is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and consultant with 14 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across consumer and infrastructure products. Based in Stockholm, he’s best known as the creator of picsum.photos and for significant open-source contributions to projects like Kong’s Insomnia, where he improved UI components and sync reliability. His background spans leadership and hands-on roles at Kong, Mullvad, Mojang (Minecraft Realms), and Hypixel, blending backend systems work, infrastructure leadership, and frontend polish. Comfortable shipping across the stack, he has a knack for turning game-scale real-time needs into robust production services and for surfacing useful telemetry and sync fixes that improve developer and user experiences.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
spigot10
ui-components10
api-client10
plug10
java10
plugin10
javas10
react10
metric10
plugin-development9
apidoc8
api8
websocket7
rest-api5
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/insomnia
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:551 reviews, 142 commits, 163 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily involved enhancements to the Insomnia API client's frontend and component library. They added new UI components and features such as the sidebar badges, functionality for deleting synced workspaces, and updates to the display of response cookies. Furthermore, the user fixed several sync issues, including those involving switching workspaces and resolving merge conflicts. The commits indicate a focus on improving the user interface and data synchronization capabilities of the application.
graphqlgrpcrestwebsocketelectron-app
CitizensDev/Citizens2
Feb 2012 - May 2012
Citizens - the premier plugin and API for creating server-side NPCs in Minecraft.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the metrics collection within the Citizens plugin. This involved adding functionality to track character types, modifying the existing metrics system, and correcting the implementation. The changes included updates to the plugin's configuration and incorporating the collection of NPC counts, indicating a focus on gathering usage data and improving the plugin's reporting capabilities. The user also performed code cleanup and made capitalization adjustments in the code.
minecraftserver-sidejavaspigotcitizens-plugin
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