David Waite
Principal Technical Architect, Product Innovation
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Waite is a Principal Technical Architect with 22 years of experience designing and delivering identity and product-innovation solutions at Ping Identity, where he has progressed from client services and solutions roles into the CTO Office and now leads product innovation. Based in Denver, he blends deep systems and back-end expertise with practical architecture for security-focused enterprise products. His open-source contributions include low-level maintenance and library upgrades to the Rubinius language platform—demonstrating attention to memory, compilation, and cryptographic library details that often live behind the scenes. Trained in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida, he brings an engineer’s rigor to cross-functional leadership and long-lived platform stewardship.
22 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, BSE Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (7)
hashtable10
memory-management10
c-programming10
llvm9
c-language8
ruby8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rubinius/rubinius
Sep 2007 - Mar 2011
The Rubinius Language Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on updating the external library Libtommath within the Rubinius Language Platform. These updates included upgrading Libtommath to version 0.41 and integrating the Better String Library (libbstring) project, replacing existing GString usage. The user also addressed compilation issues and memory leaks and corrected warnings. Additional changes include integrating Christopher Clark's Hash code (libcchash) and several other code refactors.
esoteric-languageprogramming-languagesvirtual-machinerubiniusprogramming-language
dwaite/json-web-proofs
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
Specification work for JSON Web Proofs
Contributions:5 PRs, 26 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
specificationjsonproofs
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