Dave Cardwell
VP Of Engineering at Canopy Connect
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDave Cardwell is a seasoned VP of Engineering with 14 years of hands-on full-stack experience, currently leading engineering at Canopy Connect from Orlando. Comfortable across the stack, he ships revenue-driving systems using Node.js/TypeScript, React/Next.js, PHP frameworks, and cloud-native tooling like Docker, Ansible, and AWS. He has a strong background in telephony and messaging platforms (Asterisk, RabbitMQ) and large-scale data stores (Hadoop, MySQL, PostgreSQL), enabling pragmatic, cost-saving architecture choices. A prolific contributor to the TypeScript ecosystem via DefinitelyTyped, he improves developer ergonomics by maintaining and updating type definitions for popular libraries. Known for quickly adopting new technologies, he pairs strategic leadership with frequent hands-on coding to accelerate product delivery.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at University of York
English
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Github Skills (16)
visual-studio-code10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
type-definition10
definitelytyped10
typescript-types10
webpacker9
webpack9
nodejs8
puppeteer8
express-session6
envelope6
docker6
eslintrc6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2018 - May 2022
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the maintenance and expansion of TypeScript type definitions within the DefinitelyTyped repository. Their work included adding initial and updated type definitions for various JavaScript libraries and tools, such as caniuse-api, browserslist, dotenv-webpack, feathersjs/authentication-oauth2, extra-watch-webpack-plugin, qs-middleware, script-ext-html-webpack-plugin, webpack-dev-server and puppeteer, enhancing the type safety and usability of these projects for TypeScript developers. Several commits involved updating existing definitions to align with newer versions of the underlying libraries. Additionally, they updated the node diagnostics_channel.d.ts file.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
davecardwell/publix-coupon-clipper
Oct 2019 - May 2021
Automatically clip Publix digital coupons
Contributions:1 review, 176 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 7 months
puppeteerclipdigital-couponscouponsgroceries
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