David Schultz is a product design engineering manager in Sunnyvale with a decade of hands-on technical leadership blending product design, mechanical systems, and security-minded software engineering. He has led cross-disciplinary teams at Meta and Apple after founding a solar optics startup and directing engineering at robotics companies, bringing rare depth from PhD-level mechanical engineering to product execution. Known for fair, forthright communication, he pairs managerial rigor with active coding contributions—authoring security and penetration-testing tools and automations for Google VRP writeups that show an eye for discoverability and preservation. Comfortable shipping both hardware and software, he excels at turning complex research and systems problems into practical, auditable product outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University
🐛 A list of writeups from the Google VRP Bug Bounty program
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:171 commits, 49 PRs, 143 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:David developed tools to automate the conversion and presentation of writeups from the Google VRP Bug Bounty program. Their work included creating Python scripts to convert a README file into a CSV format and vice-versa. They also implemented a system to tweet new writeups and archive their URLs, integrating with Twitter and the Wayback Machine to enhance discoverability and preservation of the writeups.
📡 A python program to create a fake AP and sniff data.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:82 commits, 5 PRs, 89 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to a Python-based penetration testing tool, making several modifications and improvements. Their work focused on fixing typos, adding functionalities to flush iptables rules, and updating core components, including a version update. The user also addressed various issues related to mitmproxy, SSLstrip output, and Tshark configuration.
pythonpentestingwififake-apkali-linux
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