David Kaminsky Email & Phone Number

Ellicott City, MD, US

Washington, DC, US

Washington, DC, US

Washington, DC, US

• Perform the role of Engineering Manager/People Leader who is actively involved in planning with product, design, and editorial while managing resources, assisting the development team, preventing roadblocks, and.
• Conduct bi-weekly 1:1s with developers and product.
• Created technical roadmap from the ground up, focusing on refactoring and standardization due to legacy code that makes development difficult.
• Started a mentorship program that encourages developers to mentor each other based on their strengths. Started a Refactor Friday initiative that enables developers to address pain points based on their interests.
• Actively involved in the hiring process: reading resumes, conducting technical interviews, culture fit interviews, coding assessments.
• Alleviate issues in the general process by proposing solutions in order to work more cohesively.

Washington, DC, US

• Full-stack web development—bug fixes, data changes, SEO, page speed, ads, tracking/BI, build improvements, documentation, legacy code refactoring.
• Active mentor, code reviewer, and contributor to developer process meetings and improvements.
• Assembled fully responsive pages and components from mocks.
• Mainly worked in Python, React, and a Java CMS.
• Coordinated launches across multiple apps, using AWS & Jenkins.
• Moved over to a different team to act as informal tech lead—completely standardizing their ad stack, React setup, performance improvements, component design, build process, code quality, and general process.

Tysons Corner, VA, US

• Integrated a unified API platform, connecting and authenticating various cloud applications—expanding the number of available data connectors by the hundreds.
• Created a modular plugin system for easy installation and use of MicroStrategy Community Connectors.

Rockville, Maryland, US

• Created VariantDashboard, an extension to the Seqr platform for rare disease genomics using React.JS & Django & Webpack.
• Created GeminiViewer, an excel-esque web application for easier sorting, filtering, and querying genome variations using Angular.JS & Node.JS & Webpack.
• Completely refactored Maven build system and navigation for PaVE, a genomics tool for annotation and analysis—allowing quicker updates and deployment: https://pave.niaid.nih.gov/
• Created PaveAnnotator, an annotation web app for producing consistent edits to GenBank files using Ember.JS & Spring Framework & Gradle.
• Developed JournalShelf, a iBook-esque web application for medical journals using jQuery & Java servlets.
• Developed a database update utility for client updates in Java & Swing.

Rockville, Maryland, US

• Completely rewrote an Excel Plugin to a Web Application which dealt with analyzing scientific data.
• Worked on the GenePattern project.
• Created Java modules for the GeneIntegrator server software.

• Designed and developed a new desktop & mobile website using HTML PHP, MySQL, and Linux—with Google Apps integration.