David Churchland
Technical Lead at Kapish
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Churchland is a seasoned Technical Lead with 13 years of professional experience building enterprise content and integration solutions across startups and large organizations. He specializes in front-end React/TypeScript work and back-end services (C#, REST) and has recently led a Fluent UI React integration for in-place records management. David pairs hands-on engineering—redeveloping SOAP to REST services, CMIS, and complex Office/Teams integrations—with a strong focus on customer relationships and mentoring teams. He contributes to notable open-source work on ServiceStack, improving Swagger support and API hosting robustness. Based in Melbourne, he brings a practical blend of product-minded development and partner enablement that helps turn complex enterprise requirements into usable, supported systems.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Griffith UniversityGraduate Diploma, Secondary Education and Teaching, Graduate Diploma, Secondary Education and Teaching at Australian Catholic University
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Github Skills (17)
application-framework10
apidoc10
app-framework10
swagger10
webservice10
api10
web-framework10
csharp10
json9
xml8
microsoft-teams6
microsoft-graph-api6
gmail-api6
office-addin6
adfs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ServiceStack/ServiceStack
Nov 2012 - Nov 2013
Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:David's primary contributions center around enhancing the Swagger API integration within the ServiceStack framework. They implemented features for handling allowable values in Swagger specifications, including range and list-based constraints. Additionally, the user addressed hosting-related issues by modifying base paths and removed duplicate resources, improving the API's deployment and documentation capabilities. They also added code to support form posts.
actionscriptcsvxmlnet-frameworkframework
content-manager-sdk/blog
Jul 2019 - May 2023
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:249 pushes in 3 years 10 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
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