David Blain
Lead Software Engineer at iPipeline
Agawam, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Blain is a seasoned Lead Software Engineer and application architect with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering distributed, service-oriented systems across finance and insurance domains. He combines deep expertise in C++, C#, Java and web technologies with practical experience in messaging (IBM MQ), WCF, XSLT-driven rendering, and complex integration patterns that migrated legacy mainframe workflows into modern, extensible platforms. A hands-on technical leader, he has led architecture and delivery for large illustration and event-broker systems at MetLife and contributed backend UPnP enhancements to the widely used MythTV open-source project. Based in Agawam, MA, David is comfortable across platforms from Windows to AIX/Linux and brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability, interoperability and incremental modernization. He’s notable for bridging low-level systems work (JNI, COM, Win32) with high-level service design to solve integration-heavy business problems.
20 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Holyoke Community College
Github Skills (9)
xml10
tvm10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
networking9
apidoc9
api9
http9
qt8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
MythTV/mythtv
Jun 2006 - Feb 2017
The official MythTV repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:241 commits in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:David implemented and enhanced the MythTV backend's UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) functionality. Their work included adding support for various UPnP features, such as eventing and connection management, enabling compatibility with devices like the Xbox 360. They also refactored and optimized the code for the service API, added new methods to the XML protocol and fixed issues with the display of program information. This involved extensive modifications across multiple files related to HTTP requests, device descriptions, and content directory services.
mythtv
FTC839-Quantum-Surge/ftc_app
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:17 pushes in 4 months
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