David Hall
Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Purdon, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hall is a senior software engineer with more than two decades of experience building large-scale, high-performance systems, currently contributing at Akamai Technologies. He has deep C++ expertise driving columnar and distributed database engines at InfiniDB and MariaDB, plus a strong background in embedded and telecom systems developed at Sevis Systems. David has repeatedly modernized legacy codebases, led ports between platforms (Windows, Linux, VxWorks), and optimized multi-threaded, multi-node systems for production performance. He combines hands-on implementation and architecture work with team leadership and mentoring, having authored requirements, design, API documentation and automated tests. Based in Purdon, Texas, he brings a practical blend of systems-level thinking and product-focused delivery that has produced commercially successful desktop, embedded and backend tools. An often-overlooked strength is his history of integrating disparate third-party tools and making brittle, international codebases maintainable and efficient.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Southwest Missouri State UniversityBS, Math / Computer Science, BS, Math / Computer Science at Angelo State University
Github Skills (74)
fuse10
databases10
faunadb10
rdbms10
storage-engine10
sql10
high-performance10
relational-databases10
database10
json10
mysql10
mariadb10
storage10
cloud-storage10
mysql-server10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mariadb-corporation/mariadb-columnstore-server
Feb 2016 - May 2019
Modified version of MariaDB for ColumnStore
Contributions:142 commits, 73 PRs, 73 pushes in 3 years 4 months
mysqlperconacolumnstoremodifieddatabase
mariadb-corporation/mariadb-columnstore-engine
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
Core storage engine - UM and PM Process code
Contributions:15 releases, 317 reviews, 884 commits in 7 years 1 month
dbmsfaunadbmysqlperconadatabases
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