David Wicks
Principal Software Engineer at Cvent
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Wicks is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building graphics-intensive and cross-platform software, currently architecting photoreal 3D streaming tours at Cvent. He blends deep C++ and OpenGL expertise with modern web stacks (React/Node) and mentors teams on architecture, testing, and iteration speed. His background spans product-facing roles at Mapbox and Capital One and creative installations for clients like Google and IBM, showing a rare mix of enterprise scale and experimental interactive systems. An active contributor to Processing and Cinder, he’s improved documentation, cross-references, platform-specific browser-launching, and core library refactors—work that supports large creative-coding communities. He pairs an MFA in Design | Media Arts with a BA in Architecture, which informs his strong sense of spatial systems and user-centered visual experiences. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design of complex state machines and reliable, production-ready multimedia systems.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Architecture, BA, Architecture at Miami UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (30)
c-language10
ios10
multiplatform10
javadoc10
cross-platform10
java10
javas10
api-documentation10
xml10
macos10
cprogramming-language10
documentation10
build-automation9
refer8
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
processing/processing-docs
Feb 2013 - May 2014
[Deprecated] Processing reference, examples, tutorials, and website
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 2 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `processing/processing-docs` repository, which is a deprecated repository containing documentation. Their work focused on improving the code for the reference documentation generator, and included trimming whitespace, fixing XML formatting, and improving the handling of cross-references. They also made changes to the build scripts and updated Java code.
javareferencegraphics
benfry/processing4
Dec 2009 - Sep 2011
Processing 4.x releases for Java 17
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:105 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying documentation within the core source code, specifically focusing on Processing's built-in PApplet class and related methods. These contributions included adding `@webref` tags to methods and variables for javadoc reference generation, as well as providing detailed descriptions and examples for input (mouse and keyboard) and shape-related functions. The documentation enhancements focused on improving the usability and clarity of Processing's API.
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