Dave Neary
Director Of Developer Relations
Westford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Neary is a Director of Developer Relations with 17 years of experience helping organizations navigate open source communities, license compliance, and developer adoption strategies. He blends engineering, community architecture, and marketing to grow engaged contributor ecosystems—most recently shaping Ampere’s developer outreach and previously guiding Red Hat’s community work across projects like Eclipse Che, OpenStack, and ManageIQ. A longtime free-software advocate, board member, and former GNOME chair, he’s helped bootstrap communities and documentation efforts that scaled to thousands of contributors (for example converting Maemo docs into a 1,300-page community wiki). Known for translating complex technical and organizational challenges into practical community initiatives, he pairs inquisitiveness with a track record of shipping programs that sustain long-term project health.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Mathematics, B.Sc Mathematics at University of GalwayPrimary education General Studies, Primary education General Studies at Bangor Erris NSM.Eng. Electronic Engineering, M.Eng. Electronic Engineering at Dublin City UniversityGarbally College
French, English
Github Skills (199)
language-server-protocol10
theia10
eclipse10
edtech10
podman10
devtools10
location10
pipeline10
amazon-ec210
amazon10
docker10
asciidoc10
ide10
antora10
editor9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
osbusiness/osbusiness.github.io
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:4 reviews, 11 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 2 months
dneary/math
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:93 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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