David Stück

Principal Software Engineer | Working at the interface of data, infrastructure, and platform

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

About

Data engineer with a decade of experience architecting, designing, building, and maintaining data platform solutions for complex, heterogenous data. I want to find opportunties where technology can improve people’s daily lives.

Experience

  • Principal Data Engineer at Sayari
    Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

  • Evidation (10 yrs 9 mos)
    • Senior Staff Data Engineer
      Sep 2023 - May 2026 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Platform Architecture: Led data architecture of new ISO 27001-compliant platform product, designing data flow, security and access models, and customer interfaces. Built out infrastructure as a service, with 100× improvement in time stand up new customers. Technical Leadership: Provided technical leadership across multiple teams, coordinating with infra, security, data science, and product.

    • Staff Data Engineer
      Oct 2018 - Sep 2023 · 5 yrs

      Data Platform: Led architecture of v2 data platform, migrating from self-managed data lake to ELT Snowflake warehouse reducing project development costs by 80%. Compliance: Designed and implemented company-wide CCPA compliance involving managing billions of files and dozens of services.

    • Research Engineer
      Jan 2018 - Sep 2018 · 9 mos

      Data Processing: Built out greenfield data platform on top of S3, Spark, and Airflow. Managed ETL and data exports to data science users.

  • UC Berkeley (5 yrs 4 mos)
    • Department of Energy Science Graduate Fellow
      Sep 2012 - Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Research: Led development of novel, high-performance algorithms for quantum chemistry simulations. Modeling: Ran cutting-edge modeling for catalytic energy research teams.

    • Graduate Student Researcher
      Jun 2010 - Aug 2015 · 5 yrs 3 mos

      • Developed high-performance algorithms implemented with numerical linear algebra in the commercially available QChem package written in C++ and Fortran. • Created stochastic simulation package in C++ and python for novel path integral methods. • Analyzed performance on chemical test sets with python (numpy). • Mentored undergraduate researcher students culminating in a joint publication.

    • Graduate Student Instructor
      Aug 2010 - May 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

      • Personally developed and taught lecture series introducing abstract linear algebra to a class of one hundred undergraduates. • Taught two lectures and closely mentored twenty-five graduate students.

  • Student Researcher at Trinity University
    Jun 2007 - Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos