Dave Balmer
Chief Executive Officer at Gobico
Glendale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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RockstarDave Balmer is a seasoned software leader and founder with 15 years of experience, currently serving as CEO of LudoNode and Gobico from Glendale, Arizona. He blends executive leadership with hands-on engineering, having been CTO at Avixena and a developer evangelist at Research In Motion and HP. An early programmer who began on TI programmable calculators at age six, Dave has shipped products across consumer and health markets and dozens of platforms. He is an active open-source contributor, notably to jo — a ~16K HTML5 app shell that targets PhoneGap, iOS, Android and multiple browsers — reflecting a focus on lightweight, cross-platform UIs. Known for turning complex requirements into practical interfaces, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep front-end craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
palm6
enyo6
coffeescript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davebalmer/jo
Jun 2010 - Feb 2020
Jo (0.5.0) is a thin (~16K) candy shell for making HTML5 apps. Jo works with: PhoneGap, Chrome, Safari, Opera, FireFox, iOS, Android, BlackBerry 10, Tizen, & Windows Phone 8+. Features include skinnable UI widgets, a clean event model and a light data layer.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 416 commits, 2 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dave appears to be primarily involved in the development of the front-end user interface for the "jo" framework. The commits show significant changes to CSS files, including styling for various UI elements like buttons, titles, and lists. The user also made changes to HTML files and JavaScript code to integrate the UI components of the framework.
data-layerios-androidthinhtml5ios
davebalmer/sniplicity
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 81 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
cssjavascriptconditionalsnippetreuse
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