Dave Wasmer
Chief Technology Officer at OpenEd.co
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Wasmer is a seasoned engineering and product leader with 14 years of experience building high-performing teams and revenue-generating products, currently serving as CTO at OpenEd.co. He scaled and shipped mission-critical systems at Coinbase—leading Activation and launching AI-generated content—while turning maintenance teams into multimillion-dollar revenue drivers. A hands-on engineer early in his career, he contributed to notable open-source projects like ember-cli and devcert, improving build tooling and simplifying local HTTPS workflows. He blends front-end UX sensibilities with backend reliability, having led design and engineering from startup MVPs to large-scale web platforms. Based in Colorado Springs, he mentors engineers across levels and consistently bridges product strategy with pragmatic technical execution. Outside work he’s a family-focused leader and follower of Christ, bringing grounded values to team culture.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics, BA Economics at Hillsdale College
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
ssl10
tls1210
testing10
http10
ember-cli10
tls1310
mtls10
certificate10
openssl10
ember10
libtls10
nodejs10
filesystem9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
davewasmer/devcert
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Local HTTPS development made easy
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:147 commits, 5 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dave primarily worked on improving the `devcert` project, which simplifies local HTTPS development. Their contributions involved fixing type issues and improving the Readme file and error messages. They refactored the code to return a node.createServer compatible object, and fixed configDir issues for non-windows environments. The user also added debug output and refactored parts of the code to template the openssl configuration file, including the addition of RANDFILE to openssl commands.
ssllocal-developmenttlscertificates
ember-cli/ember-cli
Mar 2014 - Apr 2015
The Ember.js command line utility.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 30 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to improving the Ember CLI build process and file handling. They fixed a bug in the history-support middleware related to querystring parsing. They also enhanced file checking logic using `fs.statSync` for better file/directory detection and addressed template rendering issues, including undefined variable handling and error messages. Further improvements included handling binary files and correcting tests.
command-line-utilityemberjsemberember-clijavascript
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