tolle fuga ad astra 🚀 ✨
👋 I'm David -- I mash keys on a weird-lookin' ergo-keeb (Kinesis Advantage 2), a wonky mouse (Evoluent VMDMW), and, at times, produce things of utility.
quick-hitters/about
- applied computer sci-fi . programming as a pastime . pickleball . sports junkie (NBA, NFL) . hip-hop . perpetual imposter-syndrome
- programming languages (using/dabbling/dabbled) : Elixir, Erlang, Python, Ruby, Clojure, Rust, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, Haskell, and cargo-culting Hacker News
- databases : SQLite, MySQL, PostgeSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Algolia (have worked with all at scale)
- fast keyboard-centric (mouseless) workflows : Unix utilities and TUIs, Ghostty, Neovim, tmux
technical interests (present)
- declarative programming with functional and/or reactive programming languages and how they can yield less buggy and more robust systems
- distributed systems protocols, data-structures, algorithms





