David Holland
IT Staff Specialist at Duke University Medical Center
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Holland is an IT Staff Specialist with over 23 years supporting Duke University Medical Center’s Facility, Planning, Design & Construction group, blending hands-on Windows/Active Directory administration with CAD supervision and IT security policy leadership. He has broad operational experience—from desktop support, software licensing and disaster recovery to introducing 3-D AutoCAD training and writing departmental security policies—ensuring secure, resilient IT for architects, engineers, and project teams. Complementing his institutional work, he contributes backend and database engineering expertise to open-source projects like WiredTiger, adding portability fixes and a libsodium-based encryptor extension. A Microsoft Certified Professional pursuing cybersecurity certification, David pairs practical infrastructure stewardship with an eye for secure, pragmatic solutions in healthcare facility design.
4 years of coding experience
Architectural / Construction Engineering Technology, Construction Engineering, Architectural / Construction Engineering Technology, Construction Engineering at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
English
Github Skills (23)
c-language10
wiredtiger10
databases10
cmake10
timestamping10
cryptography10
cprogramming-language10
relational-databases10
encryption10
sql-database10
database10
testing9
datastructures-algorithms8
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
wiredtiger/wiredtiger
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
WiredTiger's source tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:449 reviews, 98 commits, 97 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving and extending the WiredTiger database code base. Their contributions involved fixing build issues, specifically relating to CMake library probes and portability problems. They also implemented a new encryptor extension that utilizes the libsodium cryptography library, as well as incorporated enhancements for variable-length column stores and timestamped truncate operations. Additionally, the user addressed bug fixes and provided improvements to test suite functionality.
rustwiredtiger
sauclovian-wt/wiredtiger
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
WiredTiger's source tree
Contributions:555 pushes, 243 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
rustwiredtiger
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