Summary
Dave Fancher is a Lead Platform Architect with over a decade of experience designing and delivering scalable software, currently leading platform work at In-Store Marketplace after multi-year leadership at Vibenomics. A five-time Microsoft MVP, published author (The Book of F#), Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning instructor, and frequent conference speaker, he blends deep Microsoft stack expertise with recent hands-on work in Node.js and React. Dave has a track record of building distributed, service-based systems—CQRS/ES, MSMQ-backed queuing, RabbitMQ pub/sub, and SignalR/Web API integrations—across enterprise and startup environments. He frequently translates complex architectural needs into practical developer tooling and thin abstractions to reduce operational complexity. Outside of tech, he balances a prolific public-facing teaching and speaking profile with a taste for gaming and film, underscoring a creative, community-oriented approach to engineering.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Business Administration: Information Technology, B.A. Business Administration: Information Technology at Indiana Institute of Technology
Associate in Applied Science Network Administration, Associate in Applied Science Network Administration at Alpena Community College
English