Dave Wheeler
Summary
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SeniorDavid Wheeler is a Principal Engineer and cross-team architectural specialist with over a decade of experience designing and shipping resilient, high-performance database-centric systems. He conceives and executes pragmatic product and platform strategies, balancing elegance, simplicity, and performance while driving collaboration between Product, Technology, and Management. A long-time open-source steward, he created and maintains Sqitch and PGXN—tools that now manage thousands of databases and host hundreds of PostgreSQL extensions—while contributing dozens of Perl modules to CPAN. His background spans founding startups, leading architecture at major organizations like The New York Times and TransUnion, and building developer ecosystems that scale. Based in New York, he brings an uncommon combination of hands-on engineering, product sensibility, and community-building; his GitHub bio—“Biomajician”—hints at a playful curiosity that fuels practical innovation.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (1)
javascript1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dwheelerau/DPI-coding-resources
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:21 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
dwheelerau/dalmations
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:85 pushes, 5 branches, 5 tags in 1 year 4 months
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