Hi, I’m David
I’m driven, curious, and I haven’t met a challenge that I shied away from
By day, I’m a Product Manager. I’m fascinated by the intersection of real human problems and responsible technology.
I was lucky to be on the Minerva Schools founding team and co-created the Minerva Active Learning Forum.
Since then, I’ve been a part of Hired and then Microsoft, leading growth for the launch of Azure DevOps.
And now, happily, I’m a product lead in Google Cloud.
In my free time, I enjoy learning about history, physics, and biology. And I have a soft spot for speculative fiction. I may or may not be writing a novel.
Some well-worn favorites on my bookshelf:
- Story of Your Life, Ted Chiang
- A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
- Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
- The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
- The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson
Between 2011 and 2013, I wrote long-form content about technology. I was happy when a handful of them made a splash.
My opinions have of course changed over the past decade and a half, but these are still favorites:
- My path from medicine into technology (2011). A few thoughts on leaving microbiology research for the wild world of technology.
- Clojure: All grown up (2013). My first impressions of Clojure and functional programming.
- Ruby is beautiful (but I’m learning Python) (2011). Why I moved to coding in Python after years of Ruby and Java.
- Ruby vs. Python: A quick look (2011). A quick breakdown of some differences between these two popular languages.
- The ‘ugliness’ of Python (2011). A look at functions and objects in two of my favorite languages.
I also used to spend time on open-source applications, libraries, and standards.
