David Golightly
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Building Cortex, MasterClass' AI Voice Chat Orchestrator
In December 2024, MasterClass launched On Call, which features interactive voice chat with MasterClass instructors. Learn about Cortex, the Effect.ts-powered hub of the On Call system.
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David is a Staff Engineer at MasterClass, where he recently led a rebuild of the core video experience. He has been programming in JavaScript and TypeScript professionally for almost 2 decades.
Before joining MasterClass in 2021, he spent several years with Seattle-based project studio Substantial, helping clients large and small ship successful products. He has constantly kept one foot in the functional programming world, advocating for robust, strongly-typed functional approaches on his team.
With a background as a musician, David plays piano and synthesizers and enjoys gardening in Oakland with his wife and cats.