David Gibbs
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Gibbs is a seasoned multi-platform software engineer and founder with over three decades of hands-on experience, specializing in Java and RPG development for IBM i (AS/400/iSeries). As owner and maintainer of midrange.com since the late 1980s, he built one of the longest-running IBM i communities and earned industry recognition for fostering collaboration. He has designed and led complex integrations between ILE RPG and Java, built Eclipse RCP/RDi plug-ins, and delivered Spring Boot services and mobile backends that improved operational metrics at scale. Comfortable across Linux, macOS, Windows and IBM i, he blends low-level platform expertise (TCP/IP, DB2, I18N) with modern cloud-friendly Java architectures and database systems like PostgreSQL and MySQL. David’s work often bridges legacy and modern systems—migrating CL jobs to Spring Batch and adding Java hooks into RPG workflows—while mentoring teams and improving developer tooling. Outside engineering he is an active advocate for the diabetic community, bringing the same long-term commitment to public service as he does to enterprise software.
11 years of coding experience
41 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Information Technology, AAS, Information Technology at Prairie State College
Stackoverflow
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eclipse-rcp
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selenium-webdriver
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Github Skills (179)
sql-client10
postgresql10
python10
db210
ubuntu10
rsync10
backup10
erd10
javascript10
qt10
nosql10
linux10
dbeaver10
sql10
js10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fallingrock/mattermost-mobile
Feb 2024 - Jul 2024
Next generation iOS and Android apps for Mattermost in React Native
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
fallingrock/backintime
Jan 2024 - Jun 2024
Back In Time - An an easy-to-use backup tool for Linux
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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