David Graham

David Graham has a long history of working in the software engineering industry. David began their career in 2001 at the Leeds School of Business/University of Colorado as a Software Engineer where they were responsible for dynamic web page development using ColdFusion scripting, designing and implementing new database systems for web applications, and migrating the production database and application from Access to SQL Server. In the same year, they became a Software Engineer at the Apache Software Foundation where they were a Committer on several projects, including Struts, Commons DbUtils, and Commons Validator, and contributed a significant amount of code, bug fixes, and user support. In 2002, they became a Software Engineer at IBM where they led the development of J2EE web application and database redesign effort that saved the team over $300,000 in hosting costs, and redesigned large DB2 databases for normalization and performance. In 2003, they became the Vice President, Engineering and Chief Software Architect at Stratavia where they were responsible for all product design, technology, and strategic architectural decisions, and led the technical due diligence process for the HP acquisition of Stratavia. In 2010, they became a Software Engineer VII at HP. In 2011, they became the Founder of Negative Code. In 2012, they became a Staff Software Engineer at GitHub where they helped make github.com a little more wonderful every day. In 2015, they became a Lecturer at the University of Colorado Boulder. Most recently, in 2021, they became a Software Engineer at PlanetScale.

David Graham attended the University of Colorado Boulder from 1998 to 2001, where they earned a B.S. in Business.