Distinguished Engineer @ Trov Inc. (October 2016 - February 2018)
Director of Innovation @ (July 2015 - June 2016)
Lead Engineer, Research and Innovation @ (July 2014 - June 2015)
Mentor @ (February 2014 - December 2014)
Lead Software Engineer @ (December 2012 - July 2014)
Programmer, Webmaster @ ChannelFireball.com (January 2012 - July 2012)
Contract Programmer @ (May 2011 - December 2011)
Senior Software Engineer @ (January 2011 - November 2011)
Director of Technology @ Channel Fireball (November 2010 - May 2011)
Architect @ (June 2009 - March 2010)
Software Engineer @ (October 2007 - May 2009)
Consultant @ Obtiva Corporation (April 2007 - October 2007)
Partner @ Big Newt Software Studios Ltd. (August 2006 - October 2007)
Software Guy @ Astels Consulting (February 2005 - July 2006)
Technical Architect @ (July 2004 - February 2005)
CoFounder @ Adaption Software Inc. (January 1999 - July 2004)
consultant @ Spirent (January 2004 - January 2004)
Coad Certified Mentor @ (January 2000 - August 2001)
Mentor @ TogetherSoft (now Borland) (January 2000 - January 2001)
Software Engineer @ Rightsmarket (January 1997 - January 1999)
Dave Astels Education
University of Calgary
MSc (Computer Science)
1991-1993
Acadia University
BCSH (Computer Science)
1988-1991
Cobequid Educational Center 1980-1983
Dave Astels Skills
TDD
Agile
Ruby
OOP
Extreme Programming
Clojure
PHP
HTML
CSS
graph databases
Smalltalk
Agile Methodologies
Lisp
BDD
Ruby on Rails
Requirements Analysis
Public Speaking
Customer Service
Software Design
Git
Linux
Subversion
Design Patterns
Arduino
REST
C
Agile Project Management
Open Source
Web Applications
Electronics
Retro Computing
Mentoring
AJAX
Scheme
Apache
iOS development
Java
Embedded Systems
Continuous Integration
Behavior Driven Development Bdd
Software Engineering
Test Driven Development
Cascading Style Sheets Css
Software Development
Object Oriented Design
Object Oriented Programming Oop
Behavior Driven Development
Object Oriented Programming
Cascading Style Sheets
Dave Astels Summary
Dave Astels, based in London, ON, CA, is currently a Freelance maker and writer at Adafruit Industries. Dave Astels brings experience from previous roles at ZombieWizard, Trov Inc. and SteelSeries. Dave Astels holds a 1991 - 1993 MSc in Computer Science @ University of Calgary. With a robust skill set that includes TDD, Agile, Ruby, OOP, Extreme Programming and more. Dave Astels has 5 emails on RocketReach.
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