David Michael Ross - Associate Director of Engineering

About

My career spans almost two decades and everything from green-screen application development to the latest, hottest web technologies. Small businesses, world-class museums, government research laboratories, and Fortune 500 companies have all counted on me to deliver outstanding web experiences for their online audiences.

I believe in "holistic" web development. My computer science background draws me toward technical, kinda esoteric topics. But, I'm also well-versed in SEO, accessibility, usability, and a little bit of design. The web revolutionized how we communicate, and a lot of pieces have to come together for a compelling digital experience.

As an engineering leader, I couple my passion for code with proven leadership techniques to inspire engineers to produce work they can be proud of, and to be people they can be proud of.

I currently work as an Associate Director of Engineering at 10up, an outstanding distributed web agency (we're hiring). I'm also a runner, feral cat socializer, podcaster, and computer history fanatic. I love living in Boston with my partner Amy, our son Andy, and three cats.

Skills

Since my early days with a Commodore 64, I've worked with lots of technologies - some I'm almost embarrased to mention. But I'm always looking for new things to try. These are some of the things I've been doing lately.

Management
Node.js
Scrum
JavaScript
CSS3
WordPress
Design
jQuery
Unit Tests
PHP
HTTP/2
Git
Gearman
Sass
Express
Functional Prog.
REST
SVN
Grunt
Linux
SEO
MySQL
UX
Accessibility

Projects

I spend a lot of my free time contributing free, open-source tools to the world. Most of my work is MIT-licensed so it can be used in all sorts of creative and profitable endeavours. This is a sample of my recent open source contributions. See my GitHub profile for more.

PHP & WordPress

JavaScript & Node.js

Open Source Contributions

Besides my own projects, I've contributed to a variety of open source tools.