David Nelson
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Favor Delivery
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Nelson is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently driving engineering at Favor Delivery after a multi-year senior role at GitLab. He brings deep .NET and SQL Server expertise, proven by contributions to widely used open-source projects like GitVersion and Noda Time where he improved CI/CD automation, package builds, and timezone resource handling. A former ThoughtWorks lead developer, he excels at collaborating across cross-functional teams to deliver maintainable, production-ready systems and has a strong background in build/release and DevOps practices. David’s work on learnGitBranching shows a hands-on understanding of Git internals and developer tooling that informs his approach to developer experience. Based in Dallas, he combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on long-term maintainability and automation to accelerate team delivery.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Software Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Ouachita Baptist University
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Github contributions (5)
nodatime/nodatime
Jul 2011 - Jul 2021
A better date and time API for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 13 commits, 4 PRs in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the time zone resource handling within the Noda Time library. Their contributions involved modifying the `DateTimeZoneResourceProvider` to utilize `ResourceSet` instead of `ResourceManager` for increased flexibility. Further improvements included moving the `DateTimeZoneFactory` to the `NodaTime` namespace and exposing static properties for accessing different time zone sources (Bcl, Tzdb, and Default). These changes aimed to improve the library's flexibility and maintainability.
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GitTools/GitVersion
May 2016 - Jul 2016
From git log to SemVer in no time
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Build & Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build & Release EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 27 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:David's contributions focused on integrating and improving the CI/CD pipeline for the project. They implemented TravisCI integration, ensuring that builds and versioning were automated within the build server. Furthermore, the user modified the build process to correctly handle package creation for different build targets, including NuGet and Gem packages. They also extracted environment variable names, improving code maintainability.
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