David Howell
Owner at Dynamic Methods
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Howell is a bootstrapped founder and software engineer with 16 years building Forms Live into Australia's leading real estate forms and contracts platform, having powered over 45 million documents. He walked away from conventional Silicon Valley culture to create a profitable, API-first company that now scales with a tight 12-person team and a mission to enable startups via accessible APIs. Technically grounded by a B.Eng (Hons) and mathematics background from the University of Adelaide, he blends systems-level engineering with pragmatic product focus. His open-source contributions include front-end UX improvements to the popular Mailspring client, showing attention to cross-platform polish and developer ergonomics. David’s leadership emphasizes sustainable company culture and practical engineering over hype, with consistent year-on-year growth since founding Dynamic Methods in 2006.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng (Hons), Computer Systems Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, B.Eng (Hons), Computer Systems Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics at University of Adelaide
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
electron10
react9
shortcuts9
keyboard-shortcuts9
linux8
windows8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Foundry376/Mailspring
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
:love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the mail client. Their contributions involved adding keyboard shortcuts for common actions, such as selecting file attachments. They also made key adjustments to center window functionality, specifically for Linux, ensuring proper display handling. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving user experience and platform-specific behavior within the application.
mailsmtpelectronosxwindows
dynmeth/RaphaelLayer
May 2012 - Jan 2013
Raphael overlay for Leaflet maps
Contributions:43 commits in 7 months
leafletmapleaflet-mapsoverlay
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