Note: my Github username changed from metadave to bookshelfdave in late 2021

I'm a software engineer based in Buffalo, NY. I helped ship Firefox, the Terraform Plugin Framework, Chef Server, Chef Analytics, Habitat, VLC compiler and Varnish projects at Fastly, and Riak Multi Data Center Replication.

I'm interested in:
- distributed systems
- programming language theory + functional programming
- parsing + compilers
- infrastructure automation
- diversity + inclusion + equity
- polyglot software development
  - I use Rust, C, Python, Terraform, C#, Go, Ruby, Swift, C++ etc.
  - I ♥️ Haskell, Erlang, F#, OCaml
- math + 3d geometry
Remote worker since 2012
😄 Pronouns: he / him
👯 I’m looking to collaborate on
- compilers + language runtimes
- cloud infrastructure tooling
- audio / synth stuff
  - I play guitar here and there, although not as much as I used to.

Fun projects that I've worked on over the years

Haskell (Almost) Standard Libraries, by Alejandro Serrano Mena (March 2022)
- additional shout out from the author :-)
7 Databases in 7 Weeks, second edition by By Luc Perkins, Eric Redmond, and Jim Wilson
The Design And Implementation Of The Freebsd Operating System 1st Edition, by Marshall Kirk McKusick and George V. Neville-Neil

223 commits as an SRE on the Mozilla Marketing Engineering and Ops (MozMEAO) team (Terraform, Python, Ansible, K8s)
- This team hosted www.mozilla.org, developer.mozilla.org, careers.mozilla.org along with other Mozilla services and sites.
Contributor to the Velero backup tool for Kubernetes (Go)
- Add an ark bug command (Go)
ksv: K8s Secrets Viewer (Go)
- and a version of ksv written in Python
Riemann OCaml Client
Chef Server RabbitMQ queue monitor (Erlang / Chef)
Implement profile signing and verification for Chef Inspec (Ruby)

I added support for scientific notation to the Gleam programming language (Dec 2022).
Contributions to Disco, a discrete math teaching language written in Haskell
- the largest contribution being disco-lang/disco#230
- add OEIS support to the Disco language: disco-lang/disco#202
Chef Analytics Rules, discontinued (Java, Antlr, Apache Storm)
JKVC - Key Value Coding for Java data structures
ETP: an Erlang Term Parser for Java.
EQL: an Elasticsearch Query Language (experimental) (Java/Antlr)
StringTemplate Object Wrappers (Java/Antlr)

Riak C client
Riak R client
- original author, although the client changed a bit
Riak OCaml client
89 PR's against Riak multi datacenter replication (MDC)
- Riak MDC replication "proxy get"
Contact: a query language and interactive shell for Riak. (Java/Antlr/Javascript via Rhino)

Wings3d Collada export plugin (Erlang)
Elasticsearch nodeattrs API enhancements (Java)
EduFS: learning FreeBSD filesystem and kernel internals (C / FreeBSD Kernel stuff)
Racket Neo4j client (Racket)
Flux3d C++/Qt/Python half-edge 3d model viewer, mostly collision detection of verts/edges/faces, triangulation, etc.
- I embedded a Python interpreter into Flux3d to add scripting support
obj2json 3d .obj -> .json converter written in Haskell

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