Dave Mcallister
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolDave Mcallister is a senior technology executive with a 30+ year track record of turning around businesses and scaling go-to-market strategies across Linux, cloud, SaaS and PaaS domains. He blends deep open source and standards expertise with commercial leadership, having led open source program offices and ISO-standard efforts (notably PDF) at Adobe and driven community-driven growth and evangelism at companies like Red Hat, Engine Yard, Splunk and NGINX. Known for rapidly adapting to market shifts, he has repeatedly rebuilt communities and external evangelist channels to expand global reach and fuel measurable revenue growth. A practiced bridge between engineering, product and sales, he has founded and advised startups while managing P&L and strategic partnerships at enterprise vendors. Based in Redwood City, he’s an unapologetic open source geek and standards wonk who often converts technical advocacy into tangible market outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics/Statistics, BS, Mathematics/Statistics at Old Dominion University
English
Stackoverflow
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59reached
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Github Skills (120)
reverse-proxy10
http10
security10
closed10
location10
mailing10
mailing-list10
quic10
load-balancer10
nginx10
svg9
auth-request9
landscape9
http-auth9
static-assets9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nginxinc/Community-Code-of-Conduct
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
NGINX Open Source Community's Code of Conduct
Contributions:1 review, 13 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
nginxdockercode-of-conduct
dwmcallister/presentation-decks
May 2023 - Mar 2025
slides from talks in 2023
Contributions:7 PRs, 23 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
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