David Wilson
Software Engineer at Stripe
Portsmouth, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Wilson is a seasoned software engineer with nine years of professional experience building web-scale systems, currently contributing to Stripe after a five-year senior engineering stint at GitHub. He brings deep expertise from large engineering organizations—Microsoft and GitHub—where he moved from individual contributor roles to senior positions shipping robust platform and developer-facing features. With a Master's in Computer Science from NC State and an undergraduate background in CS and Applied Mathematics, he combines strong theoretical grounding with practical, production-grade engineering. Based in Portsmouth, Virginia, he has a proven track record of improving developer workflows and scalable web architectures. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances product thinking with careful implementation and mentorship across cross-functional teams.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (36)
javascript10
react-components10
microsoft10
typescript10
web-components10
react-component10
typechecker10
visual-studio10
fluentui10
office-ui-fabric10
react10
cli10
chrome-extension9
webextension8
special-characters8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dwilsonactual/dwilsonactual.github.io
Apr 2017 - Aug 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 5 months
whaxicon/whacks
May 2017 - Feb 2022
Official dictionary of whack terminology for various special characters.
Contributions:14 commits, 12 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years 9 months
special-characters
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