Summary
Dave Bachmann is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM with decades of hands-on experience measuring, analyzing, and improving the performance and scalability of distributed systems. He has driven performance work across numerous acquired and organic security products—DCE, LDAP, Tivoli PKI, Identity Manager, and TAM ESSO—partnering with product managers, architects, developers, sales and support to turn field data into product improvements. Based in Texas but collaborating globally from Singapore to Minsk, he combines deep research roots (MS/PhD work on network simulation and modeling) with practical tooling used to size deployments and troubleshoot customer incidents. Known for solving hard performance problems, he blends analytic rigor with pragmatic engineering and has been focused on this specialty since 1987. An interesting quirk: his global engagements have expanded his repertoire of greetings in several languages, reflecting both technical reach and cultural curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MS, PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, MS, PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan
BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, BS, Computer Science and Mathematics at Iowa State University
Ames High School