David Rees
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Rees is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building products and scaling platforms at companies from startups to Google and YouTube. He combines deep technical chops—spanning architecture, backend distributed systems, and product strategy—with a history of launching incubation programs and mentoring early-stage founders. His background includes leading solution teams that closed multimillion-dollar engagements and incubating next-generation services at large carriers like Sprint and Clearwire. At Google since 2013, he applies enterprise-scale engineering practices informed by earlier roles as a chief solutions architect and technical lead. David is equally comfortable advising startups and steering corporate strategy, a mix that makes him effective at turning ambiguous opportunities into production software. He studied computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has a track record of blending hands-on engineering with business-first product thinking.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (172)
visual-studio-code-extension10
editor10
keyboard10
ai10
cli10
electron10
karabiner10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
tmux10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
quicksilver10
language-server10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
studgeek/WebStorm-Firefox-Connector
Nov 2010 - May 2012
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year 6 months
NodeDC/nodedc.github.com
Aug 2012 - Mar 2013
Community site for the NodeDC Meetup powered by GitHub Pages.
Contributions:34 commits in 7 months
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