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Seattle, Washington, US

Driving strategic and long-term software projects in the Gen AI, Observability, Programability and various other spaces for F5 BIG-IP, NGINX and Distributed Cloud offerings.

Seattle, Washington, US

Creating internal and external AI tools for enterprise and customer use.Helping architect and build an innovation funnel to move new ideas to reality, whatever that might be. Results may be new products, open source tools or pure research.

Seattle, Washington, US

Design & development of CI automation tools, concentrating on developer security and best practices
Built a set of daily CI pipelines & associated containers that automate adding various security scanning jobs to all VCS/F5 Gitlab projects
Designing bigger-picture application to leverage collected data for security team single-view, exposing each.

San Francisco, California, US

Helping Grove scale the database and web systems for continued massive growth

As a member of the Web Platform team, I created and implemented scalable tools to help IBM with web security, privacy, internal website tooling and web standards.

I advise teams and write code for the IBM Marketplace, https://www.ibm.com/marketplaceThe stack is largely node.js, React, sass and Cloudant.

Currently helping several technology startups with features, build processes, python and node back-end and front-end JavaScript applications.

Lenexa, KS, US

Lead Crypton open source software project https://crypton.ioCrypton is a web framework that helps developers build privacy into web applications as a core feature. I contributed to the code and managed the Crypton team.

San Francisco, CA, US

I worked on new and existing browser features and WebAPIs to increase user privacy and security. I was focused on implementing DOMCrypt in Gecko/Firefox, which was an initial strawman proposal for the W3C Web Cryptography Working Group.

San Francisco, CA, US

Front-end Firefox browser features, built in developer tools, browser Identity and DOMCrypt API

San Francisco, CA, US

ILM training software development. Python/Django/jQuery - based tools for training artists, software engineers and other technical staff at ILM, LucasArts, Lucas Animation and Lucasfilm.I re-designed, developed and maintained LOIS, a knowledgebase used by over 1000 users.

Lemont, IL, US

Networking and Organizational software tools: Host database tools, Network Cabling database, Cisco Switch/Device tools for polling data and reporting anomalies. Concentration on Python, Django, Linux, Shell, MySQL, Postgresql

Created Firefox extension and web application for researchers to make the most of web-based research sessions. The site no longer operates, the code was open-sourced: https://github.com/daviddahl/rCache

Macintosh/Windows cross-platform application development, Web/Database application development, database design, workflow-publishing solutions, streaming QuickTime solutions, Linux system administration, web, database, email hosting. Sales and marketing of web and database applications, software training.Developed several web-based ventures, the latest.

Chicago, IL, US

Web-based ecommerce and marketing software development. PHP 5, Postgresql, MySQL, FreeBSD/Linux, Python, wxWidgets, SQLite and AJAX/Javascript

Okemos, Michigan, US

Web application development, database design, and Linux system administration

Chicago, IL, US

Intranet development, web, file server admin, network and system troubleshooting

Education record

None Whatsoever, Self-Taught, Great Mentors, Passion About Tech