Dave Shanley
Distinguished Engineer at Splunk
Manakin, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorDave Shanley is a distinguished engineering leader and inventor with 23+ years turning complex ideas into market-leading products across startups, agencies, and tech giants. Currently defining the architecture for VMware’s Developer Experience Platform and now at Splunk, he specializes in large-scale DX—CLIs, APIs, SDKs and UIs—building tools that materially improve engineers’ productivity and consumption of APIs. He’s led teams that shipped the prototype of VXRail, architected next-gen VMware Cloud Console and vSphere Client experiences, and founded a VC-backed startup, demonstrating both hands-on delivery and strategic product leadership. An old-school full-stack hacker and founder of the pb33f project, he pairs deep implementation skills with a talent for developer ergonomics, and holds 15 authored or co-authored patents across hardware, software, UI and testing. Preferentially remote, he balances technical authorship with building world-class teams that reduce friction for developers at scale.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (127)
xapi10
parser10
testing10
swagger10
websocket10
standardized10
prism10
message-queue10
oas10
openapi-generator10
vacuum10
multiple-languages10
linter10
linting10
rest-api10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pb33f/homebrew-taps
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:121 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
daveshanley/vacuum
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
vacuum is the worlds fastest OpenAPI 3, OpenAPI 2 / Swagger linter and quality analysis tool. Built in go, it tears through API specs faster than you can think. vacuum is compatible with Spectral rulesets and generates compatible reports.
Contributions:129 releases, 59 reviews, 547 commits in 1 year 3 months
linterslintlinterredocopenapi-specification
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