David Glaude
Teacher at MPSDnow
Moss Point, Mississippi, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Glaude is an experienced educator and instructional leader with over a decade in K–12 settings, holding an M.S.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction and Educational Administration and multiple Mississippi endorsements including Special Education and School Administration. He has led school operations, directed curriculum and data-analysis protocols in challenging environments such as a correctional school, and coached new teachers in classroom management, multicultural education, and professional development. Equally comfortable with hands-on pedagogy and policy work, he has built community–school partnerships as a School Liaison and authored workshop content for staff development. Outside traditional education, he contributes to embedded systems and IoT open-source projects—helping adapt CircuitPython and related libraries for diverse hardware—which reflects a practical, tech-savvy approach to problem solving that informs his instructional design.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, HISTORY, Bachelor of Arts - BA, HISTORY at The University of Southern Mississippi
Github Skills (24)
system-configuration10
py10
python10
hardware-interface10
firmware10
microcontroller10
integrations10
led-controller10
sys10
system-integration10
adafruit-circuit-python10
embedded10
configurations10
raspberry-pi10
c119
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
adafruit/circuitpython
Sep 2017 - Aug 2025
CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 PRs, 92 comments, 24 issues in 8 years
Contributions summary:David primarily contributes to the CircuitPython project by modifying board-specific configurations and documentation related to hardware support. They updated the README to reflect accurate guide links for different development boards, and addressed outdated experimental labels within code. The user also implemented board configuration changes to enable features like Gameduino 3X Dazzler support and enabled GIF support on certain boards, demonstrating an understanding of hardware integration and firmware. Furthermore, they added an alias for an LED pin on a specific board to align with expected practices.
microcontrollerpythoncircuitpythonmicropythonembedded
pimoroni/unicorn-hat
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
Python library for Unicorn pHAT and HAT. 32 or 64 blinding ws2812 pixels for your Raspberry Pi
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to example code and library functions for the `unicorn-hat` repository, a Python library for controlling LED matrices on Raspberry Pi. Their work included implementing rotation functionality, refactoring existing examples to support both the pHAT and HAT versions, and adding new example programs. These contributions demonstrate a focus on hardware control and adapting software for different hardware configurations.
pythonraspberry-pi
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