# Dave Dolben

> Engineering at Hightouch

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davedolben

Former Stanford student-athlete, avid guitarist, and software engineer. Currently living and working in San Francisco, CA.

I am a generalist software engineer with experience across a wide range of areas. I've designed and built an agent model in a 3D simulation engine, worked on an Unreal Engine 4 plugin, built a geospatial caching system in C++, written Go web servers, and prototyped front-end mapping and vector data components in JavaScript. I've led and managed teams of engineers. I've spent significant time working directly with customers, and translating their requirements into cross-team initiatives. I've also worked with Big Data processing systems with Hadoop and MapReduce, as well as Esper and Storm.

I am also interested in computer graphics and anything in 2D/3D, both desktop and web graphics APIs, as well as procedural modeling, simulation, and path tracing. Several hobby projects currently hold my interest, including a working GameBoy emulator in C++, and a C++/Vulkan rendering engine.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Hightouch
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer / Manager - Woven Planet North America - Level 5 @ Woven Planet Holdings
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
(Lyft Level 5 autonomous vehicle team was acquired by Woven Planet in July 2021)

Engineer / manager on the Woven Planet Level 5 Simulation Team. Led the Simulation Engine team responsible for building a high-fidelity simulator to evaluate our autonomous driving stack(s). Previously designed, built, and evaluated agent models within the simulation engine.

### Senior Software Engineer / Manager, Lyft Level 5 @ Lyft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, CA
Engineer / manager on Lyft Level 5 Simulation Team. Led the Simulation Agents team, designing, building, and evaluating agent models within our simulation engine.

### Senior Software Engineer, Lyft Level 5 @ Lyft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Engineer on Lyft Level 5 Simulation team.

### Engineering Manager @ Improbable
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
Worked directly with customers to translate their requirements into cross-team initiatives.
Contributed to Improbable's Unreal Engine 4 plugin.
Built tools to exercise and test Improbable's products, analyze performance, and assist in debugging customer issues.
Managed engineers, both local and remote.

### Software Engineer @ Improbable
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View
Built and maintained a geospatial caching service in C++ for a customer-facing application.
Built and maintained a Go web server for serving vector and map data to a customer-facing application.

### Software Engineer @ Skybox Imaging
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

### BD Engineering Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, CA

### Software Engineering Intern @ Twitter
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Streaming Analytics. Worked with Java, Esper, Kafka, Ruby, Sinatra, and JavaScript to build internal streaming analytics tools.

### Software Development Intern @ Klout
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco
Big Data, back-end software development. Worked with Java, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Oozie, Sqoop, SQL to develop data storage / analysis applications.

### Help Desk Technician @ Internet and Telephone, LLC
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | North Andover, MA

### Roving Leasing Consultant @ The Dolben Company
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009

### Summer Intern @ Pervasis Therapeutics
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Cambridge, MA


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
Stanford University

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dave-dolben
- GitHub: https://github.com/ddolben

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Last updated: 2026-04-11