David Riff
Software Engineer at Stripe
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Riff is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable systems across mobile, backend, and DSP domains, currently contributing at Stripe from Dublin. He combines a strong academic foundation in electronic engineering with hands-on work at Microsoft and impactful projects at CESAR, where he optimized BLE latency, developed synchronization protocols, and built robust voice-activity detection using DSP and ML. Exceptionally organized and proactive, he favors learning new languages and frameworks to solve hard problems and connect theory to practice. An active open-source contributor, he improved Python packaging and PyPI upload flows in the widely used flit project—adding custom .pypirc support, refactors, tests, and docs—demonstrating attention to developer experience. Colleagues describe him as curious and unafraid to dive into unfamiliar technical areas, often translating research-grade techniques into production-ready features.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronic Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electronic Engineering at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English, German
Github Skills (7)
packaging10
pypi10
python10
pytest9
testing9
command-line-interface8
documentation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/flit
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Simplified packaging of Python modules
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 15 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `flit` project by implementing and modifying features related to packaging and uploading Python modules to PyPI. They added functionality for custom `.pypirc` file support, allowing users to configure repository details. Further contributions included refactoring code and adding unit tests to ensure the correct behavior of the upload process. The user also updated the documentation to reflect the changes to the command-line interface.
python-modules
davidrft/OscilloscoPy
May 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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