David Purpura
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Fountain Valley, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Purpura is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building data-driven products and analytics systems, currently driving platform work at Databricks after a long tenure at Google. He has deep expertise in backend and full-stack engineering for large-scale analytics and attribution systems, and has a strong grounding in type-safe JavaScript through notable contributions to the widely used google/closure-compiler (improving Angular Material externs and type inference). A UC Irvine alum with both BS and MS in computer and information sciences, David combines rigorous academic training with practical experience shipping production systems at scale. He brings a history of mentoring and technical leadership from Staff-level roles and a knack for improving developer tooling and compiler integrations. Based in Fountain Valley, CA, he balances systems-level thinking with an eye for front-end type correctness—an often-overlooked skill that reduces runtime errors across large client codebases.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
closure10
angular-material10
google-closure-compiler10
javascript10
type-checking10
type-check10
optimization10
angular9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/closure-compiler
Jul 2016 - Aug 2020
A JavaScript checker and optimizer.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 comments, 1 issue in 4 years
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Angular Material externs within the closure-compiler repository, focused on improving and fixing type definitions. They added missing functions, corrected existing definitions, and addressed syntax issues, making the externs compliant with JSCompiler's new type inference. Furthermore, the user updated Angular and related animation externs to use @interface declarations. These changes ensure the correct functionality of the Closure Compiler and the integrity of type checking for the Angular Material library.
javascriptclosure-compileroptimizationtypechecking
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