David HsiaoExperience / 01
Web + applied AI

Production teams.
Independent products.

My professional foundation is frontend engineering at Barracuda, Adobe via TEKsystems, and Supermicro. Today I build client web projects and independent products, using AI-assisted development alongside testing and release validation.

01
Dec 2024 — nowIndependent

Freelance + independent development

Product Engineer

Client web development and owned products: D8ly, OutfitSignal, AfterPlay, and SetReplay. Work spans interfaces, API integrations, AI-assisted implementation, tester feedback, and production or TestFlight releases.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Cloudflare
  • Applied AI
02
Aug 2022 — Sep 2024Professional

Barracuda

Software Engineer

Developed Cloud-to-Cloud Backup interfaces with Next.js, React, and TypeScript; integrated REST APIs, built shared navigation, partnered with QA on Jest / React Testing Library tests, and participated in production on-call and release triage.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • REST APIs
  • Jest + RTL
03
Aug 2021 — Apr 2022Professional

Adobe

Software Engineer via TEKsystems

Helped move product surfaces from AngularJS toward React and built shared components based on Adobe Spectrum.

  • React
  • AngularJS
  • Adobe Spectrum
  • Shared UI
04
Apr 2018 — May 2021Professional

Supermicro

Product Engineer

Modernized a legacy CherryPy web form with React and built Python / shell automation for firmware verification and API-based updates, replacing manual per-system procedures.

  • React
  • Python
  • Shell
  • Automation
05
Mar — Apr 2018Independent

Designery

Freelance developer

Delivered a focused client project while transitioning into full-time product engineering.

  • Web development
  • Client delivery
06
2017Training

Hack Reactor

Software Engineering Immersive

Intensive software engineering program focused on modern JavaScript development and collaborative product work.

  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Node
07
2015 — 2016Earlier work

Foslabs

Product manager

Early product work that shaped the product-minded, cross-functional approach I bring to engineering.

  • Product
  • Prioritization
  • Collaboration
08
2007 — 2011Education

University of California, Riverside

Biological Sciences

Studied Biological Sciences.

  • Research
  • Systems thinking

The work is the
through-line.