David Katz
Software Engineer at Upstart & Coding Course Creator | JavaScript, React, Ruby on Rails, Java, TypeScript, Node.js, Vert.x, Blockchains | 5+ years experience
- Role
- Software Engineer at Upstart
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About David Katz
Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web development (React, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails) and creating highly-available, scalable, distributed systems (Java, event-driven architectures, functional programming). Additionally, a coding course creator with students, demonstrating a passion for mentoring engineers.Website: http://davidtkatz.com/Github: https://github.com/15DkatzUdemy Instructor Profile:
Experience
Software Engineer
Jan 2025 — Present
Leading an initiative to create a streamlined financing-focused version of embedded credit flows in external vehicle dealer websites. Establishing best practices across the full stack, including frontend guidelines for reusability, state management, and performance, while identifying backend codepaths to refactor or deprecate.* Led engineering for an Equifax-based Credit Profile feature for Auto Retail borrowers. Partnered directly with external Equifax engineers, created a comprehensive testing suite (30k+ cases), built the Datadog monitoring dashboard, and authored foundational documentation for integration.* Owned backend (TypeScript, PostgreSQL) and frontend (React, TypeScript, Next.js) development for Prequalification configuration and event-tracking. Partnered with Product, Data Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering to instrument events end-to-end across Databricks, Datadog, PagerDuty, and CDC pipelines.* Achieved 85%+ integration test coverage across the Auto Growth team’s services, exceeding the org OKR.
Education
University of San Francisco
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science
2015
Skills
- Angularjs
- Talent Acquisition
- Socket.io
- Applicant Tracking Systems
- B2b Marketing Strategy
- Angular2
- Account Management
- Web Development
- Business Analysis
- React.js
- Business Development
- Technical Recruiting
- Consulting
- Talent Management
- Ruby on Rails
- Vendor Management
- React Native
- Recruiting
- Management
- Ionic Framework
- Vue.js
- Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
- Public Speaking
- Contract Recruitment
- Outsourcing
- Java
- Leadership
- Relational Databases
- Front-End
- Crm
- Operating Systems
- Building Relationships
- Python
- Node.js
- Sales
- C
- Javascript
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