Dave Gauer
Senior Engineer at MerchLogix
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolDave Gauer is a seasoned Senior Engineer with over two decades of professional software experience, currently shaping MerchLogix's enterprise web-based floor planning and planogramming platform. He has deep experience building LMS and e-learning systems from the ground up, having led architecture and development at Michaels & Associates and TraCorp. Comfortable across the stack—CLI tools, client-side apps, server-driven sites, and Android—he follows a "make the computer do the work" philosophy and continuously studies software craftsmanship and languages. An active writer of book reviews and tutorials, he also explores new languages hands-on, contributing beginner-friendly Zig exercises to open-source learning projects. Based in Marietta, Georgia, he blends practical production experience with a writer’s sensibility that informs clear documentation and developer-focused tooling.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
AA, Website Administration, AA, Website Administration at Art Institute of Phoenix
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Github Skills (22)
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zig10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ratfactor/ziglings
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.
Role in this project:
Beginner Programmer
Beginner ProgrammerContributions:7 reviews, 289 commits, 73 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Dave appears to be a beginner programmer learning the Zig programming language. Their contributions primarily involve fixing and completing small, broken programs designed to teach the fundamentals of Zig. They are adding new exercises to the "ziglings" project, covering core concepts such as importing libraries, variables, arrays, strings, control flow (if, while, for), functions, and the usage of built-in functions. The user is focused on learning the basics of the language through example programs.
programming-languagezigziglang
ratfactor/stdlib-browseable
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
Creates a browseable HTML site from the Zig standard library source.
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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