# David Wetterau

> Software Engineer at Cursor - Not looking for work! 

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Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davidwetterau

I am a Software Engineer at Anysphere (building Cursor) in New York City. I enjoy building systems and software. I previously worked at Airtable on AI and core products, and at Dropbox on the Filesystem team. I studied Computer Science at UT Austin, where I taught and researched distributed systems, and completed internships at Dropbox, Google, and Indeed.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cursor
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Airtable
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States
- Tech lead for Omni, the transformation of Airtable into an AI native platform. 
- Led the engineering development of ProductCentral, and contributed significantly to its product definition.
- Helped build new core Airtable features and new primitives, such as List View and manual sorting.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Built the next-generation distributed filesystem for Dropbox

### Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Dropbox
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, CA
- Defined the multi-year roadmap and led a team of 20 engineers to rebuild Dropbox's distributed Filesystem.
- Deployed continuous verification, repaired every Filesystem data inconsistency, and established a culture of keeping data correct and clean at Dropbox.
- Led the team while we delivered new data models and new features such as object-based metadata that now powers tags across the product.
- Invested in growing the engineers on the team and at the company both one-on-one and through structured mentorship and learning initiatives that I proposed and led.
- Designed and built systems to improve our ability to process Dropbox's many petabytes of stored metadata.

### Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA
Filesystem Team
- Developed and safely deployed a new protocol for performing multi-shard Filesystem operations of arbitrary size. This system powers all Move, Copy, and Delete operations at Dropbox.
- Worked on the server protocol for the new Sync engine rewrite, Nucleus which successfully replaced the legacy Dropbox sync client.

Shared Folder Infrastructure Team
- Developed inherited permissions and the ability to nest shared folders for Dropbox's Business customers.
- Rewrote and maintained various File and Folder level operations to support nested shared folders.
- Maintained and improved a distributed event processing queue built on top of Edgestore with at-least-once semantics and serializable ordering guarantees.

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Proctor for Dr. Alvisi's graduate distributed systems class (CS 380D in Spring 2015)
- Proctor for Dr. Alvisi's undergraduate distributed systems class (CS 371D in Spring 2014 and CS 378H in Fall 2014)
- Held office hours for students and graded their projects

### Software Engineering Intern @ Dropbox
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA
- Worked on the OAuth infrastructure to support the Dropbox for Business API
- Designed and built the audit log API to make 3rd party IT security integrations possible

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Kirkland, WA
- Designed and implemented a pipeline to detect and report anomalies found in billions of entries for the DoubleClick Search product
- Worked with technologies such as FlumeJava, MapReduce, Bigtable, and GWT

### Automata Theory and Complexity Tutor @ University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Austin, TX
- Chosen by Dr. Elaine Rich to tutor her class for the Spring Semester
- Tutored on topics including FSMs, PDAs, TMs, and the formal proofs for each

### Software Development Intern @ Indeed.com
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
- Designed and wrote the server backend and HTML frontend for an online photo uploading and displaying service
- Worked to improve the Indeed company page product in various ways
- Designed and built a native Android application

### Research Intern @ The University of Texas at Austin Center for Space Research
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
- Analyzed satellite data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Satellite (GRACE)
mission
- Worked to identify issues with the satellite’s battery and electrical systems


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Honors
The University of Texas at Austin


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dwetterau
- Portfolio: https://davidw.tech
- GitHub: https://github.com/dwetterau

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Last updated: 2026-04-13