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Experience, education, open-source work, and academic background.

General Information

Full Name David Baker Effendi
Location Cape Town, South Africa
Languages English, Afrikaans

Experience

  • Since 2025
    Senior Software Engineer (Remote)
    Brokk, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA
  • Since 2025
    Visiting Lecturer
    University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • 2023 - 2025
    Chief Scientific Officer
    Whirly Labs (Pty) Ltd., Cape Town

Education

  • 2025
    PhD Computer Science
    University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
    • An Approach to Modern Static Analysis with Property Graphs
      • Brink van der Merwe
      • Willem Visser
      • Fabian Yamaguchi
  • 2019
    Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Cum laude
    University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • 2018
    Bachelor of Science
    University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • 2015
    Matric
    Grey High School, Gqeberha, South Africa

Internships

  • June - Sept 2022
    Applied Scientist Intern
    Amazon Web Services, Santa Clara, California, USA
  • 2017 - 2020
    Developer Intern
    ACI Worldwide, Cape Town
    • Various vacation internships
  • June 2019
    Developer Intern
    MWR Infosecurity, Johannesburg

Open Source Contributions

  • Since 2025
    Bifrost Active contributor to multi-language static analysis for coding agents.
  • Since 2025
    Anvil Active contributor to Brokk's reusable ACP agent backend.
  • 2022 - 2025
    Joern Past contributor to the code property graph analysis platform.
  • 2020 - 2024
    Plume Past primary maintainer of the graph-database benchmarking suite.

Honors and Awards

Academic Interests

  • Static Program Analysis
    • Language agnostic
    • Pragmatic, scalable
    • Machine learning integration
    • Open to cool multi-disciplinary integrations

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Indoor rock climbing and walking my dogs around Cape Town's beautiful parks