David Garlisch
Senior Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems
Linden, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Garlisch is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience building robust software across MS-Windows and UNIX environments, currently contributing at Cadence Design Systems. He brings deep expertise in C/C++, SQL, web languages (HTML, JavaScript, PHP), Tcl, and relational database design, with a track record of shipping cross-platform CAD and avionics systems. His career includes designing mission-critical infrastructure such as Southwest Airlines’ flight tracking database and long-lived dispatching systems, plus CAD kernel integration for widely distributed commercial products. Comfortable spanning low-level embedded work, platform-independent IPC, and GUI/API development, he excels at turning complex system requirements into maintainable, production software. Based in Linden, Tennessee, he combines institutional knowledge from long tenures with an engineer’s curiosity—often favoring pragmatic, interoperable solutions that stand the test of time.
12 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (42)
computational-science9
openfoam9
parallel-io9
visual-studio-extension9
parallel-computing9
stl9
asset-pipeline9
gitflow9
cpp8
fbx8
cgns8
motion-detection8
scientific-computing8
patreon8
python8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dbgarlisch/tcl-Param
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:95 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
dbgarlisch/glyph-listutils
Feb 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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