David Noble
Owner at Noble Factor
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Noble is an experienced software engineer and owner based in Redmond with 11 years of professional experience building robust, cloud-native backend systems. He spent much of his recent career at Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Flexible Server for PostgreSQL, contributing deep expertise in transport-layer Java networking (notably improving the RNTBD transport client and channel pooling in the widely used azure-sdk-for-java). Comfortable shipping platform features from emulators to API layers and data migrations, David pairs practical engineering with systems-level troubleshooting—fixing memory leaks, socket issues, and performance bottlenecks. He has led small product-focused teams in startups and large organizations alike, and brings an unusual mix of builder, student, activist, and grandfather perspectives to his work.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.P.H. Biostatistics, M.P.H. Biostatistics at University of Michigan
Github Skills (14)
javas10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
netty10
java10
cosmosdb10
concurrency9
performance-optimization9
back-end-development9
error-handling8
testing8
azure-sdk7
azure-resource-manager5
azure-resource-group5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-java
May 2019 - Jul 2020
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Java. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/java/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 21 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:David made significant contributions to the Azure SDK for Java, primarily focusing on the direct TCP connectivity layer for Cosmos DB. Their work involved implementing load-balanced channel support, refactoring, and optimizing RNTBD transport client, channel pool, and request manager components. The user also addressed memory leaks and other critical issues. These changes resulted in improved performance, reliability, and address potential socket and channel-related problems.
azure-resourcesversionedazure-functionssdkazure-services
microsoft/HybridRow
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Serialization format for semi-schematized data
Contributions:86 commits in 3 months
jsonldsemiserialization-formatserializationschema-validation
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