David Shaffer
Lecturer at Auburn University
New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Shaffer is a computer science lecturer and former associate professor with 15+ years bridging higher education and commercial software development, combining a PhD in Physics with deep hands-on experience in desktop, mobile, and full‑stack web systems. He has built production systems in Java and C++ for manufacturing and contributed cloud-backed frameworks using AWS and Seaside earlier in his career, and today teaches and develops courses in mobile apps, web development, data science, and software engineering. Skilled in a wide range of languages from Java and Python to Smalltalk and Clojure, he is an active open-source contributor in the Smalltalk community and brings practical expertise in Docker and container orchestration into the classroom. He also runs robotics outreach and competition programs and administers UNIX/Linux labs, evidence of a pragmatic, project-focused approach to teaching and mentoring.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of PittsburghBS, Physics, BS, Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (14)
smalltalk9
pharo8
cryptography8
docker6
describe4
wolfram-language4
documentation4
scheme-interpreter3
scheme3
dfa3
code-golf3
php1
laravel1
interpreter1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cdavidshaffer/gemstone-docker
Nov 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
cdavidshaffer/jauburn
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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