Hi there, I'm David 👋

I am a software developer who blogs and deploys tools for investing. You can find some of my free tools at dli-invest.

Professional Journey

2025 - Present

IT-02 Analyst

Canada School of Public Service (CSPS)

Developing AI-powered internal tools and chatbots. Modernizing public service IT infrastructure using cloud-native solutions.

Azure

Openai

Node.js

Python

2024

Software Engineer

Royal Claims

Engineered AI-driven document analysis and scaled backend processing for insurance claims automation.

Python

SQL

Openai

2023

Software Engineer

Yellowsheet Construction Data

Modernized legacy systems to PHP 8.3/Laravel and built high-performance Python data ingestion pipelines.

PHP

Laravel

Python

Stripe

2021 - 2023

Software Engineer

carSHAiR

Led search UI redesigns and managed real-time microservices for a high-traffic marketplace.

Node.js

React

Docker

2018 - 2021

Software Developer

Stealth Startup

Developed complex financial questionnaires and mobile apps using modern JS frameworks.

Node.js

PHP

JavaScript

Class of 2019

B.Sc. Computer Science

University of Victoria (UVic)

Specialized in Software Engineering and Algorithms. Completed multiple industry co-op terms.

Java

Linux

Git

My Skills

Python

JavaScript

Java

Golang

Node.js

React

Css3

Vue.js

HTML5

PHP

Flutter

Laravel

SASS

NPM

Docker

AWS

Linux

Ubuntu

cPanel

Git

GitHub

Bitbucket

Android

Markdown

Tailwind css

Jira

Stripe

Font Awesome

W3C

TeX

TypeScript

Hugging Face

Openai

Python

JavaScript

Java

Golang

Node.js

React

Css3

Vue.js

HTML5

PHP

Flutter

Laravel

SASS

NPM

Docker

AWS

Linux

Ubuntu

cPanel

Git

GitHub

Bitbucket

Android

Markdown

Tailwind css

Jira

Stripe

Font Awesome

W3C

TeX

TypeScript

Hugging Face

Openai

Revolutionizing Web Performance: Using Gemini 3.1-Pro-Preview for AI-Generated SVGs

Feb 22, 2026

Discover how to replace heavy JavaScript web animations with AI-generated SVGs using Gemini 3.1-Pro-Preview. A deep dive into the devcraft repository, Vite tooling, and best prompting techniques for scalable vector graphics.

gitbash

Advanced Git - Cherry-picking, Merge Strategies, and Release Management

Nov 30, 2025

Strategies for managing specific commits and handling merge conflicts automatically

LaravelCryptography

Replicating Laravel's Crypt::decryptString Logic in Python

Oct 17, 2025

A technical deep dive into decoding Laravel encrypted strings using Python's 'pycryptodome' library. Learn the AES-256-CBC, HMAC-SHA256 protocol used by Laravel and how to successfully verify the MAC and decrypt the payload outside the PHP environment.

Recent Projects

Latex Diagrams

Latex

Diagram

Nextra

Latex Diagrams that I have generated for university or have taken from internet.

vuepress-theme-cool-starter

Vuepress

Vue

JavaScript

Starter theme for vuepress which was originally suppose to be named `vuepress-theme-school`.

Flipp Flyer Scrapper

pydoll

web scraping

Scrap Grocery flyers by analyze the shadow roots in dom.

Financial News NLP

Spacy

Python

Faunadb

Process financial news articles scrapped from the internet using python.