David Selph
El Paso, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Selph is a systems-oriented Rust developer with a decade of software experience and over five years focused on building high-performance tooling for databases and search. He’s delivered production-grade integrations at ZomboDB and TCDI, specializing in making Postgres and Elasticsearch interoperate efficiently. Based in El Paso, he combines hands-on engineering with practical operational experience from running his own small business, where he managed inventory, logistics, and live-stock care. David’s work emphasizes reliability and speed in data-heavy paths, and he enjoys squeezing modern Rust patterns into legacy data systems. His GitHub positioning—"Making Postgres and Elasticsearch work together like it's 2023"—captures a pragmatic drive to modernize search/database workflows. He holds an associate degree in Computer Science and brings a blend of entrepreneurial grit and low-level systems craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at El Paso Community College
Github Skills (11)
text-search10
elasticsearch10
rust10
postgresql-database10
postgresql10
postgresql-extension10
sql10
query-parser7
parser6
sql-parser5
crate3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zombodb/gitfiti
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
zombodb/zombodb
Jul 2015 - Aug 2020
Making Postgres and Elasticsearch work together like it's 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 26 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 2 months
sqltext-searchpostgreselasticsearchpostgresql
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