David Simmer
Bio
David Simmer is a designer and engineer with a couple decades of experience building for people who use the web. Homeschooled as a kid, and having shifted to working in tech as second career, he's had a weird and fortunate career journey.
Most recently, he's been a fullstack engineer at Netflix for 5+ years working on a wide variety of efforts: GraphQL Federation, unifying UX across internal tools, improving the experience of software migrations large and small, and cross-functional projects that make other engineers' days better.
After five years away in California, he now lives in St Paul with his wife Cleo and two rescue dogs named Chuck and Greta. Among other hobbies, he plays piano, mountain bikes, skis, and is learning to build cabinetry.
Website: https://simmer.ooo
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Participating Sessions
- Capture the Flag
- 50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins
- The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
- What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
- Shipping Atoms and Bits: What Building Physical Products Taught Me About Better Engineering Decisions
- Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
- Entrepreneur Panel: Maximizing Value from a Mentor
- ✱✱ State of Minnestar: A Community Conversation on the Past, Present & What’s Possible! ✱✱
- Owning your engineering career progression and some advice from Tom Hanks
- Code, cloth, and your hands: How engaging in textile craft makes you a better technologist
- I'm Disabled & You Will Be, Too
- Photogrammetry to Furniture - Designing for the real world in Blender
- (Cybersecurity) Warnings 😳
- Only Amiga Makes It Possible: Discovering the Future in a Computer from 1985
- Website Improv: You're the Worst Client Ever
- What the Heck is a Qubit?