David Balatero is a engineerin' at Stripe. He possess expertise in javascript, ruby, ruby on rails, distributed systems, linux and 24 more skills. He is proficient in Japanese. Colleagues describe him as "I worked with David during his time at Boundless. He has deep skills generally in software development, but also as a seasoned full-stack developer working on the Ruby on Rails/React tech stack our company is on. I relied on him a lot for technical guidance and feedback, and he was smart, thoughtful, and helpful on all the occasions we interacted. He also demonstrated a lot of ownership and vision for the future when it came to the direction we wanted to move our technology in. A perfect example would be how he deep dived into fixing some of the data integrity issues we were facing when dealing with container types (collections) in our data model, and was able to come up with a thoughtful, well-documented technical plan which he implemented to a T. Definitely that is a template for how engineers should be able to work effectively given with the demands of a growing team, codebase and company.", "David is smart, thoughtful, patient, capable, and easy-going, making him a great colleague and mentor. Due to his deep technical skills and experience, I trust him to successfully complete any software development task or project without oversight. I pair programmed with him many times, and each time was productive, felt effortless, and resulted in me learning something new. I appreciated his attention to code quality and the quality of the user experience. I thoroughly enjoyed working with David and would absolutely love to work with him again.", and "I've worked with David on dozens of projects at several different companies. He is an ideal technical collaborator who has a deep understanding of real-world software engineering and an unshakable focus on improving the end-user experience. He brings so much to every project that he works on: constantly improving code quality and test coverage, finding the simplest solutions to complex problems, providing careful and attentive mentorship to less experienced members of the team, and maintaining genuine empathy for users and colleagues. David's deep product experience also means he can take vague requirements or broad business goals and organize successful initiatives to make real progress on them. Having David on your team essentially guarantees you will see rapid, top-quality technical execution on projects that will most meaningfully move your organization forward."