David Gross
Founder President, Techno-Interpersonal Consultant at GloCoach-The Digital Leadership Accelerator
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Gross is a seasoned technologist and founder who combines deep mathematical rigor with practical systems engineering to solve complex techno-interpersonal challenges. As Founder & President of 1728 Solutions, LLC, he helps organizations build, repair, or plan solutions at the intersection of technology and human collaboration, and he adds Business & Performance coaching through GloCoach since 2025. He brings 11+ years of engineering experience across solar and renewable energy, including leadership roles at Heliogen (Director of Simulation & Modeling; Principal Simulation Engineer) and eSolar, where he led large-scale plant design and optimization and built simulation toolchains. An active open-source contributor, he has helped advance Chebfun as a back-end developer and test automation engineer, developing differentiation matrices and tests for division/exponent handling in singfun, and integrating development branches. He holds a BS in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, and Literature from Harvey Mudd College, reflecting both technical depth and a liberal arts perspective, and he values storytelling and creativity—evidenced by early theatre improvisation work. Based in California, he’s a rare blend of hands-on engineering, mathematical modeling, and people-focused leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Harvey Mudd College
English, French, Hebrew
Github Skills (5)
matlab10
numerical-computing10
testing10
algorithms8
algorithm8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chebfun/chebfun
Jun 2014 - Feb 2015
Chebfun: numerical computing with functions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:David contributed significantly to the Chebfun repository by addressing issues related to the `singfun` class and division operations. Their work included adding tests for division and exponents in the `singfun` class, ensuring correct behavior and accuracy, and refactoring existing code. Furthermore, the user integrated changes from the 'development' branch. The changes included the development of differentiation matrices, indefinite integration matrices, and related testing procedures.
eigenvalueslapacknumerical-computingpythonscientific-computing
davidagross/qmk_firmware
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
keyboard controller firmware for Atmel AVR and ARM USB families
Contributions:45 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
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