After starting his career as a software developer, Dave led the PayPal Community to adopt PayPal’s first APIs. Since then he has held roles in Developer Advocacy and Community at Strikeiron (the first API-as-a-Service company), Redis Labs, Traceable, and now Dremio. He also is known for founding CloudCamp & BigDataCamp. Dave gained minor notoriety when he proposed to his girlfriend in his book, PayPal Hacks.