Dave Fisher
VP Of Tooling at The Apache Software Foundation
Healdsburg, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDave Fisher is a veteran software leader and builder with over three decades of technical and leadership experience who now serves as VP of Tooling at the Apache Software Foundation, focusing on SBOMs and the Apache Trusted Release platform. He blends hands-on engineering, platform architecture, and team mentorship—able to code in any language when needed—while directing large open source initiatives and foundation governance. A long-standing Apache PMC member and VP of Petri, he’s contributed to high-profile projects like Apache Pulsar and its site, improving documentation, search, and community-facing content. Comfortable delivering pragmatic, long-lived automated systems, he also runs consulting ventures and has a history of guiding migrations, event-driven architectures, and enterprise search solutions. Based in Healdsburg, CA, Dave pairs deep technical craft with open source stewardship and a knack for turning complex compliance and release needs into operational tooling.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rice UniversityDGN
Github Skills (13)
content-management-system10
javascript10
docusaurus10
algolia10
apache-pulsar10
front-end-development10
content-management10
website-development10
html8
css7
messaging6
pubsub6
event-streaming6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pulsar-site
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Apache Pulsar Site
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 30 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the Apache Pulsar site by making changes to the `docusaurus.config.js` and `index.js` files. Their work focused on updating and refining the site's content, specifically around trademarks and copyright attribution. Additionally, the user made multiple updates to Algolia API keys and parameters, and configured the site for search. The changes indicate a focus on website content management and improving the user experience.
event-streamingpulsarjavascriptstreamsstreaming
apache/pulsar
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
Apache Pulsar - distributed pub-sub messaging system
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 15 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on website-related updates within the Apache Pulsar project. They updated website configuration files, removed company logos from the main page, and added a "Companies Powered by Pulsar" section. Furthermore, the user updated URLs in the configuration and download pages to reflect the correct locations. Their work involved modifying site configuration, documentation, and content, enhancing the project's website and user experience.
event-streamingpulsarmessaging-systemstreamingapache
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.