David Eckhardt
Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Eckhardt is a Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University with over a decade of experience educating juniors, seniors, and master's students in operating systems and computer networks. He directs and advises the course-based MSCS program, shaping curricula that cultivate detail-oriented, self-steering problem solvers able to tackle open-ended systems challenges. A hands-on educator and primary student advisor, he blends rigorous Ph.D.-level expertise with practical teaching to prepare students for complex, real-world systems work. Beyond academia, he serves as vice president of VoteAllegheny, applying his technical background to advocate for trustworthy election systems in the Pittsburgh community. His long tenure at CMU and deep specialization in systems make him a go-to mentor for students transitioning from coursework to applied systems research and engineering.
11 years of coding experience
B.S., B.S. at Penn State UniversityPh.D., Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (48)
broadcom10
provisioning10
ntp10
security10
privacy10
geocoding10
android10
bluetooth-low-energy10
systemverilog9
javascript9
verilog9
android-open-source9
proxy9
freertos9
http9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
de0u/grapheneos.org
Jan 2024 - May 2026
grapheneos.org main web site (fork)
Contributions:11 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 4 months
de0u/Eloquent-JavaScript
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 9 branches in 27 days
javascripteloquent-javascriptlaravelsourceseloquent
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.