David Reaver
Principal Software Engineer at Stripe
California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Reaver is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on and leadership experience building infrastructure, data, and full-stack systems for high-scale environments. Currently tech lead for Stripe Core Infra, he focuses on AWS, Linux, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and cost-efficiency while helping a 250+ person org stay productive. Previously he led infra, data warehousing, and performance work at Freckle by Renaissance—halving a six-figure AWS bill while maintaining zero SLO violations—and implemented Snowflake-based ELT and company-wide analytics. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed practical fixes and Qt scheduler examples to the well-known ReactiveX/RxPY project. Based in Southern California, he pairs pragmatic engineering with cross-functional collaboration, often stepping into product, sales, and security conversations to turn ambiguous, company-wide problems into measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS + MS Mechanical Engineering, BS + MS Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Riverside
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Github Skills (20)
system-programming10
reactivex10
qt10
python10
memory-management10
c1110
linux-kernel10
c1710
kernel10
concurrency10
unit-testing9
documentation9
cx-freeze6
distutils6
py2exe6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ReactiveX/RxPY
May 2015 - Nov 2015
ReactiveX for Python
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 18 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:David made several contributions to the RxPy library, including fixing a parallel processing example, adding a Qt main loop scheduler, and creating an example demonstrating the Qt scheduler. They also removed a keyword-only argument for Python 2 compatibility and added the `pluck_attr` function. Finally, the user updated the build configuration and examples.
pythonreactivexreactivereactive-extensionsrxpy
jdreaver/iris
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:210 commits, 99 pushes in 4 months
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