David Simmons
CTO at Smallscript Corp
Kapolei, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Simmons is a veteran CTO and founder with over three decades of systems engineering and language/runtime design experience, currently leading The Light Phone's privacy-first mobile and cloud communication platform from Kapolei, Hawaii. He founded Smallscript Corp, where he built the Aos private cloud, AOS VM and multiple dynamic language implementations (TSL, S#, Smalltalk, TCL, JavaScript), reflecting deep expertise in high-performance runtimes and developer tooling. His career spans pioneering work at NIST and the University of Maryland on networking and embedded systems, to architect roles at Microsoft shaping .NET, VB, Windows Mobile and JavaScript platforms. Known for blending low-level hardware and OS insight with cloud and IoT product thinking, he repeatedly translates research-grade ideas into production-grade platforms. An uncommon strength is his sustained focus on language-driven developer workflows and multi-threaded VM design that underpins several commercial and open-source toolchains.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, EE, PHYSICS, CS, Bachelor's degree, EE, PHYSICS, CS at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (77)
windows10
visual-studio10
editor10
notepad10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
javascript9
regular-expression9
outputdebugstring9
sqlite-database9
cpp9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Smallscript-Corp/vue-web-component-plugin
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:47 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
smallscript/msty-wf
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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