David Raifaizen
Rust Evangelist And Software Engineering Champs Member at Bloomberg
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Raifaizen is a Rust-focused software engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience driving performance-sensitive systems and team delivery out of New York. Currently a Rust Evangelist and Engineering Champs member at Bloomberg, he has a track record of leading teams, prototyping production services in Rust to cut CPU and memory use, and pushing adoption of safe, high-performance tooling. His open-source contributions include backend improvements to the Servo web engine—adding image-format detection and WebDriver handlers—highlighting practical systems-level work on a high-profile Mozilla project. He blends a finance-educated product sensibility from NYU Stern with deep engineering craft, having rebuilt core services and developer tooling at Lifion and modernized legacy financial web apps earlier in his career. David prefers remote-friendly roles and excels at translating technical debt and prototypes into reliable, production-ready systems. Notably, he pairs hands-on coding with people leadership, having led teams of direct reports while championing Rust adoption across large engineering organizations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Finance, B.S., Finance at NYU Stern School of Business
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
rust10
browser10
webpages10
webdriver10
webengine10
web-content10
servo9
web-platform9
bloomberg6
excel6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
servo/servo
Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 19 PRs, 206 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:David focused on improving the Servo web engine by implementing various code optimizations and enhancements. This included making map+clone operations more succinct, removing unnecessary parameters, and refining block type pattern matching. Additionally, the user added a method to detect image formats supported by Servo, extending its capabilities. Furthermore, the user worked on WebDriver integration, adding new handlers for window size, isEnabled, and isSelected.
browserrustjavascriptbrowser-engineservo
craftytrickster/grafana
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:6 PRs, 85 pushes, 13 branches in 4 months
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