David Steele
Principal Architect at Crunchy Data Solutions, Inc.
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Steele is a seasoned systems and data architect with nearly three decades of hands-on software engineering across C/C++, Java, PL/SQL and large-scale relational databases. He has driven extreme-scale data platforms—designing Postgres clusters that processed trillions of rows and architecting SMS systems handling billions of daily messages—while leading teams and interfacing directly with customers. As pgBackRest maintainer and an active contributor to its backend, he focuses on reliability, memory-efficient implementations, and practical tooling for PostgreSQL backup and restore. Comfortable across Solaris, Linux, VMware and enterprise networking, he combines low-level systems expertise (compression, encryption, compilers) with pragmatic data model and workflow design. Known for rescuing underperforming systems through deep performance analysis, he pairs architectural vision with meticulous, production-first coding.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
HS General, HS General at Woodberry Forest SchoolBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at George Mason University
English
Github Skills (22)
strings10
postgresql10
text-manipulation10
databases10
database-administration10
c1110
data-structure10
c1710
data-structures10
database10
file-management9
version-control8
optimization8
optimisation8
optmization8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pgbackrest/pgbackrest
Nov 2013 - Jan 2023
Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:110 releases, 783 reviews, 3760 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions focused on adding and modifying functionality within the pgBackRest project. They implemented new features like `lstComparatorZ()` for zero-terminated strings and improved existing functions. They also fixed bugs and made code improvements, such as optimizing data structures for memory efficiency and improving documentation for the codebase. They worked on a variety of modules, showing versatility across different areas of the project.
gzipbackup-restoredifferentialbackuprestore
pgaudit/pgaudit
Oct 2017 - Jun 2022
PostgreSQL Audit Extension
Contributions:39 releases, 30 reviews, 106 commits in 4 years 9 months
postgresql-extensionauditaudit-logpgauditdatabase
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