David Slik
Research Scientist at 2012 Laboratories
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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SeniorDavid Slik is a research scientist and technology leader with over two decades of experience building and standardizing large-scale distributed storage and object systems. He has co-founded a successful storage startup, guided R&D and advanced technology teams at NetApp, and now leads industry-facing storage research at 2012 Laboratories. An active contributor and co-chair within SNIA and participant in NVMe standards, he pairs deep protocol and systems expertise with a rare track record of technology transfer, patents (80+), and product commercialization. His background spans embedded systems, medical imaging (DICOM/PACS), computational storage, and IoT/IIoT—plus a hands-on hobbyist practice building IIoT networks and Eurorack synth modules that keeps his hardware instincts sharp. Based in Vancouver, he combines strategic consulting, team leadership, and hands-on architecture to simplify complex problems into deployable, market-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (52)
webapi10
surface10
refinement10
stereo10
x-plane10
mesh9
neural-rendering9
docker9
rest9
specification9
texture9
oas9
3d-reconstruction9
point-cloud9
openapi9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SNIA/CDMI-spec
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Specification issues and source files
Contributions:2 reviews, 50 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 5 months
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dslik/svg-gauge
Dec 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
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