David Hall
Inactive at Freelance
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDavid Hall is a corporate attorney turned semi-retired technologist in the San Francisco Bay Area with a rare blend of in-house licensing law and decades of hands-on coding experience. Over a legal career spanning major roles at OSIsoft and Elsevier MDL, he negotiated nearly $2B in software, SaaS and services outbound licenses and handled complex IP, partnership and corporate matters across energy, pharmaceuticals and data industries. He pairs that practice with deep technical work—three decades of coding and contributions to .NET Windows interop via the well-regarded dahall/vanara repository, including audit logging, VSS wrappers and virtual disk support. Comfortable drafting and negotiating inbound and outbound IP and open source licenses, he also manages third-party and OSS license risk and ancillary corporate issues from tax to real estate. Known for translating legal requirements into pragmatic engineering and product terms, he helps bridge legal, security and engineering teams to move deals and integrations forward. Based in the Bay Area, he is a pragmatic advisor who still writes and reviews code while focusing on selective freelance and consulting engagements.
11 years of coding experience
Poli Sci, Poli Sci at University of California, BerkeleyJ.D., J.D. at University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law
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Github Skills (16)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
com-interop10
ws-api10
winapi10
csharp10
wp-api10
dotnet-core10
security9
error-handling8
file-handling8
file-processing8
marshalling8
fileio8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dahall/Vanara
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
A set of .NET libraries for Windows implementing PInvoke calls to many native Windows APIs with supporting wrappers.
Contributions:76 releases, 14 reviews, 2684 commits in 5 years 2 months
dotnetpinvokewindowsdotnet-standardextensions
contre/Windows-API-Code-Pack-1.1
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Windows API Code Pack 1.1
Contributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 19 comments in 1 year 2 months
apiwindowspackwindows-api
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