David Lawrence Campbell

Objective

Research and build systems that improve quality of life, create community, and sustain themselves. Do so acting as a software engineer, writer, organizer, and leader.

Computer Skills

Used Professionally: Bash, fish, JavaScript, PHP, Python
Learned Independently: C, Clojure, Fortran, Julia, LISP, OCaml, Rust
Software: Apache, ArcGIS, Discourse, Git, LaTeX, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Visual Studio Code
Operating Systems: Windows, OSX, Linux: Arch, Ubuntu, Debian

Experience

• Translated client requirements into functional application features
• Created prototypes of applications
• Used graphical software in application creation
• Performed testing of applications after completing them

• Learned company needs and icreased revenue by setting up customers with many company products
• Reduced setup times and offloaded engineer work by creating GUIs and configuration endpoints
• Wrote system documentation to reduce training time for new hires

• Improved clients’ SEO by fixing longstanding sitemap generation and submission issues
• Uncovered several bugs and improved site reliability with HHVM static analysis
• Increasded scalability, reduced time and latency of image exports
• Added real time image export reporting to reduce issue resolution time
• Extended and improved handling of image meta-data for better page displays
• Improved seller experience with Stripe Connect integration

• Contributed benchmarks, bug reports, and documentation to Julia
• Wrote cube puzzle solver (3D space filling) and visualization tools
• Created Python bindings for pysvmlight machine learning library

• Setup and maintained hardware, webserver (LAMP), Drupal installations
• Copyedited business reports, public correspondance, technical documentation
• Wrote project development plan, press material, internal documentation, reports

• Financial accounts tracking software (2024)
• Created weather tracking software with Prometheus (2024)
• Added shell history features to ion the Redox OS shell
• Wrote TUI GO game for Redox Games
• Wrote Hearts server and GUI client, contributed to the Conrod GUI library
• Contributed to Arch Linux, pkgtools (gem2arch), namcap, many PKGBUILDs
• Wrote a library and agents for playing Texas Hold’em
• Wrote cparted and contributed to PyParted, disk partioning in Anaconda from RedHat

Education

CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
John Collinson Philosophy Award recipient

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