David Sanner
Senior Network Engineer Linux System Programmer at Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDavid Sanner is a Senior Network Engineer and Linux systems programmer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience designing secure, scalable infrastructure and custom HPC environments. He architected and built a bespoke HPC cluster and sitewide backup platform integrating local disk, tape, and cloud storage, and created custom network monitoring and management tools while handling firewall design and administration. Comfortable across Linux/Unix, AWS, systems programming (C/C++), scripting (Python, Bash, PHP, Node.js), and databases, he partners closely with scientific teams—most notably enabling cell biologists to run CellProfiler and in-house image analysis at scale. His background includes leading a 25-person engineering team to launch the first commercial online magazine and early university networking work for NASA-related research, reflecting a blend of hands-on engineering, team leadership, and scientific instrumentation experience.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Astrophysics at Drexel University
Github Skills (88)
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gps-tracker10
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marine10
gpx10
garmin10
pulse10
node-server10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
davidsanner/signalk-parser-nmea0183
May 2018 - Oct 2021
NMEA0183 to Signal K parser
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 5 months
signalnmea0183signal-kparser
davidsanner/OpenCPN
Nov 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:49 pushes, 10 branches in 7 years 5 months
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