Hi, I’m David. I’m a full-stack software engineer. My primary web development experience is in full-stack PHP, JavaScript (ES6, React, Node.js, Express), and SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
My prior professional experience is in transportation planning, consulting, and project management, both in the private sector and within government. I have masters degrees in Transportation Engineering (M.S.) and City Planning (M.C.P.) from the University of California, Berkeley. Go Bears! 🐻
When I’m not thinking about technology or transportation, I also enjoy food, reading, learning languages, and getting outside on a Citi Bike! 🗽🚲
Some Books I’ve Enjoyed
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- Sister, Outsider by Audre Lorde, an incredible collection of essays
- The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, a stunningly beautiful novel that became the film Carol
- How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones, I could not stop talking about this memoir
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is from a similar era as The Price of Salt (1956 and 1952 respectively); I couldn’t believe it was written then. Beautiful and moving.
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi was an important starting point for me on better understanding and committing to being antiracist
- Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty despite being a pretty big book was a page turner the whole way through for me
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makai was a book I was so sad to finish because I wanted more time with these characters
Projects I’ve Worked On in Transportation and Public Services
- I conducted a comprehensive review of the key drivers of elder abuse case complexity in San Francisco, analyzing over 21,000 case records in Stata and performing a survey of peer jurisdictions (conference slides here)
- I created and maintained the original transportation pages on the San Francisco City Scorecards website
- I worked with a team to improve staff processes and customer experience around Muni-related feedback through data analysis, business process mapping, customer & peer surveys, and lean process improvement
- I designed and implemented a study of the immediate impacts of implementing bus rapid transit on the Bx41 route in the Bronx, including statistically modeling the dwell time of NYC Transit buses serving bus stops