David Chell
Director Of Research And Development at Smartrak
Waikato, New Zealand
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Top SchoolDavid Chell is a seasoned software leader and Director of R&D with 14+ years of experience shaping roadmap, architecture and delivery for Smartrak’s fleet and asset platform. He blends hands-on engineering expertise across C++, C#, JavaScript and SQL databases with strategic product leadership, driving scalability, maintainability and cross-functional collaboration. A pragmatic architect, he makes key technical decisions informed by his team and a long history of shipping complex systems from in‑cab navigation to public transport allocation and enterprise CRM. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he extended Dapper to better support PostgreSQL and multi-database adapters, reflecting a knack for improving database interoperability. Based in Waikato, New Zealand, he balances technical depth with people-first leadership and a surprising creative streak in landscape photography.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at NZCEFairfield College
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Github Skills (5)
postgresql10
csharp10
sql10
dotnet-core10
sql-server9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DapperLib/Dapper
Sep 2011 - Mar 2012
Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to enhancing the Dapper library, focusing on database interaction and functionality. They implemented support for PostgreSQL, including key retrieval after insert operations and handling entities without primary keys. Further, they refactored the code to support different database systems by introducing an `ISqlAdapter` interface and associated adapters. These changes improved Dapper's capabilities and database compatibility.
dotnetobject-mapperdappersqlado-net
greygeek/MediaLibraryNormalizer
Mar 2026 - Mar 2026
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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