Dave Lester
About
Dave Lester is from San Francisco Bay Area. Dave works in the following industries: "Computer Software", "Internet", "Higher Education", "Information Technology & Services", "Banking", "Consumer Electronics", and "Computer & Network Security". Dave is currently Principal Open Source Solutions Architect at U.S. Bank, located in San Francisco Bay Area. Dave also works as Foundation Member, PMC Member, and Committer at The Apache Software Foundation, a job Dave has held since Jan 2013. In Dave's previous role as a Director of Open Source at Open Raven, Dave worked in San Francisco, California, United States until Mar 2021. Prior to joining Open Raven, Dave was a Open Source Programs Lead, Machine Learning at Apple and held the position of Open Source Programs Lead, Machine Learning at Cupertino, California, United States. Prior to that, Dave was a Open Source Programs Lead, Cloud Infrastructure at Apple, based in Cupertino, California from Jan 2016 to Mar 2019. Dave started working as Open Source Developer Advocate, Software Engineer at Twitter in San Francisco, California, United States in May 2013. From Jun 2012 to May 2013, Dave was Integration Engineer at Mozilla, based in San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Dave was a Assistant Director at University of Maryland, based in Washington D.C. Metro Area from Jan 2010 to Jan 2011. Dave started working as Software Developer and Developer Community Lead at George Mason University in Washington DC-Baltimore Area in Jan 2007.
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Dave Lester's current jobs
All things open source and InnerSource in service of US Bank's digital transformation. Particular focus on data platform technologies: Apache Druid, Presto, and Apache Superset.
ASF Foundation Member: 2015 - Present Apache Mesos PMC and Commiter: 2013 - Present Apache Aurora PMC and Committer: 2014 - 2020 Incubator PMC member: 2015 - Present MesosCon Co-Founder and Chair: 2014 (Chicago), 2015 (Seattle), and co-chair MesosCon Europe 2015 (Dublin), North America 2016 (Denver)
Dave Lester's past jobs
As Head of Open Source, I led the startup's open source strategy and defined its early open source offerings. I led the open source release of Mockingbird, a privacy-friendly tool for synthetic data generation, as well as initial product work for Magpie, an open source cloud security posture manager (CSPM) for monitoring the security of your organization's data in the cloud.
Engineering Program Manager, leading open source programs for AI and Machine Learning, and the PM for ML Research Publications.
Apple's first open source programs hire. Led open source strategy for cloud infrastructure and OSS community participation, supporting internal teams using Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, Netty, Solr, Mesos, and more. Helped drive the streamlining of Apple’s open source contribution process. Led the open source release of FoundationDB and chaired the project's inaugural community conference, FDB Summit, in partnership with the CNCF / Linux Foundation.
Developer Advocate for Twitter's Open Programs Office as a representative of over 100 open source projects, guiding the process of releasing new projects and growing external contributions once released. My focus was on two key infrastructure projects that power Twitter's cloud compute: Apache Mesos and Aurora. Founded and chaired MesosCon, a community conference for Apache Mesos, organized in collaboration with the Linux Foundation. From 2014 to 2015 I grew the conference from 250 to over 700 attendees.
Led integrations with third party platforms for the OpenBadges.org community.
Assistant Director at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, based at UMD. Directed research and development of grant-funded projects, managing a team of programmers and designers working on infrastructure and related tools.
Software Developer at the Center for History and New Media, based at GMU. Member of core software development team, and community liaison with third party developers. Responsible for open source community growth, leading workshops, and outreach. Co-founded THATCamp, an unconference with 300+ regional spin-offs worldwide. Led development of WPBook, a WordPress plugin with over 165k downloads.