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David Balin

A bit about me

I'm David, a computer science and math student at Vanderbilt University based out of Seattle. I love building things that solve real problems and I'm happiest when I'm deep in a codebase, figuring out how to make something work better.

Right now I'm obsessed with the agentic AI wave. LangChain, MCP, RAG pipelines, vector databases. The idea that you can build software that reasons and acts on its own is the most exciting thing happening in tech. I spend a lot of my free time experimenting with new frameworks and shipping side projects to see what sticks.

Outside of code, I'm researching the best restaurants in whatever city I'm in, flying my drone for cinematic videography, grinding NYT daily games and chess puzzles, or listening to European music. I also play squash competitively at Vanderbilt.