David Anderson
Principal Software Practice Lead at The Apache Software Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Anderson is a Principal Software Practice Lead with 22 years of experience bridging low-level systems engineering, large-scale data platforms, and developer advocacy. He began his career writing CPU floating-point microcode and inventive UI systems—later leading an early "metaverse" project—and has since built recommender systems, crawlers, and cloud services while leading platform and SRE teams at XING. As an Apache Flink committer and former Ververica trainer, he has taught thousands of engineers about stream processing and produced one of the most-viewed Flink videos and Stack Overflow answers. A serial founder and consultant, he combines hands-on coding (notable OSS contributions to Emscripten and SourceMod) with product and operational leadership across startups and enterprises. Based in Seattle, he pairs deep research pedigree (10 patents, SIGGRAPH/AAAI publications) with practical delivery of reliable, high-throughput systems.
22 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS (ABD) Computer Science, MS (ABD) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, French, Spanish, German
Github Skills (18)
webgl10
code-optimization10
debug10
javascript10
c-language10
memory-management10
regular-expression10
emscripten10
opengl-es10
webassembly10
cprogramming-language10
apidoc9
c119
build-system9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alliedmodders/sourcemod
Jul 2006 - Aug 2022
SourceMod - Source Engine Scripting and Administration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 3071 commits, 295 PRs in 16 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily worked on the SourceMod back-end, making improvements to core functionality by upgrading third-party libraries, fixing memory-related bugs, and addressing logic errors. They were also involved in improving the build process by updating the Python version and making build infrastructure improvements. These commits focused on improving code quality, performance and stability.
sourcemodscriptingadministrationsource-enginescripting-engine
alliedmodders/amxmodx
Feb 2004 - Jan 2023
AMX Mod X - Half-Life 1 Scripting and Administration
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 1793 commits, 35 PRs in 19 years 2 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the development of regular expression features by implementing and refining key functionalities within the project. These changes involved additions to code related to a regular expression API, specifically adding new functions to interact with the data. The updates were focused on handling string operations and improvements in code structure.
scriptingmodadministrationhalf-lifeminetest
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