Dave Dixon, Ph.D

Senior Software Engineer II at Credit Karma

Resume

Current tech stack

• TypeScript
• Clojure(Script)
• Scala
• Google Cloud
• Pub/Sub
• Spanner
• MySQL
• Apache Beam
• Kubernetes
• Kafka

Publication List

• Dave Dixon publications

Background

• Coding since age 11 (40+ years).
• Started college in CS, took a physics class, fell in love and switched majors, went on to get a Ph.D.
• Physics work of note
  • Discovered new form of “chaotic” dynamics
  • Application of statistics and software to detect the gamma-ray halo around the Milky Way galaxy
• Left academia in 2001, generalized those coding and math/science skills into several areas, including
  • Machine vision
  • Bioinformatics
  • Operations research/financial modeling
  • General enterprise and SaaS software/architecture
  • Big data, ML/AI, analytics

Contact me

dave.d.dixon@gmail.com

Some orginal music selections

Some of this was transferred from 20+ year-old cassette tape, so forgive the audio quality.

• Playlist