David Whitely
Lead Engineer at Capsule
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Whitely is a Lead Engineer based in Portland with 11 years of experience building creative, production-grade web and interactive installations across agencies and product teams. He combines front-end mastery in CSS, React/Vue and Pixi with backend work in Node and Python, and hands-on C++/Cinder experience for hardware-driven museum and onsite projects. At companies from Code and Theory to Webflow and now Capsule he’s bridged design and engineering—owning architecture, deployment, and the user-facing polish. Trained as a musician (Bachelor of Music, Music Technology & Jazz Upright Bass), he brings a pattern-recognition mindset and orchestral attention to timing and performance in complex engineering systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music, Music Technology & Jazz Upright Bass, Bachelor of Music, Music Technology & Jazz Upright Bass at Northwestern University
Github Skills (58)
javascript10
electron10
uniform10
css10
chrome10
html10
nodejs10
glfw9
rendering9
geometry9
glsl9
linux9
v89
vertex-shaders9
texture9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
davydka/gatsby-starter-gsap
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 130 commits, 137 pushes in 3 months
davydka/ARkit1
Feb 2019 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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