David Boswell
Senior Director Of Community Architecture at The Linux Foundation
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Boswell is a senior community architecture leader with 14+ years building and scaling open source ecosystems, currently serving as Senior Director of Community Architecture at The Linux Foundation from Berkeley. He has a proven track record growing participation—doubling Hyperledger meetup groups and driving ONOS and CORD community expansions—by pairing data-driven strategy with pragmatic contribution pathways and thoughtful volunteer onboarding. A hands-on builder as well as a strategist, David has implemented community-facing systems at Mozilla (including volunteer recognition and contribution measurement) and contributed code to prominent projects like mozilla/bedrock, improving “Get Involved” workflows. He blends public-sector and nonprofit insight (MPA from Columbia SIPA) with technical project experience going back to CollabNet and web development roles, making him adept at aligning organizational goals with diverse contributor motivations. Not immediately obvious: he combines metrics-oriented growth tactics with operational fixes—templates, auto-responses and routing changes—that remove friction and materially increase volunteer impact.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Latin and History, Bachelor's degree Latin and History at The University of Texas at AustinMPA Environmental Policy Studies, MPA Environmental Policy Studies at Columbia | SIPA
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Github Skills (12)
web-development10
mozilla10
python10
django10
html-template9
html9
css7
javascript7
wxwidgets6
browser6
xulrunner6
embed6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/bedrock
Apr 2012 - May 2013
Making mozilla.org awesome, one pebble at a time
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `mozorg` application within the `mozilla/bedrock` repository, focusing on the "Get Involved" form. They implemented features for the form, including adding new options (e.g., "Graphic Design", "Education") to the dropdown menu. Additionally, the user updated auto-response configurations and contact information related to the form, ensuring the correct routing of inquiries. They also modified the application's template and email configuration files.
pebblefirefoxpythondjangocss
davidwboswell/hl-landscape
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
🌄The intent is for the Landscape to be a living document that developers, investors, vendors, researchers and others can use as a resource on the landscape of blockchain.
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
vendorsblockchain-platformblockchainblockchain-networkintent
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