David Hirschfeld
Founder & CEO at Tekyz Corp
Vista, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hirschfeld is a founder and CEO with 12+ years in software and a track record of guiding startups from concept to cash flow using his Launch 1st methodology through Tekyz, a company he founded in 2007. He blends hands-on engineering (Full-Stack Analytics/DevOps) with executive leadership across diverse domains—from healthcare and finance to IoT, real estate, and even Broadway production tech. A pragmatic recovery-project specialist, he routinely rescues troubled builds and refactors teams and architectures to deliver scalable, user-focused systems and high-fidelity prototypes. His open-source contributions to widely used projects like conda, JupyterHub, and conda-forge demonstrate deep experience in cross-platform packaging, Docker/Jupyter container spawning, and Windows compatibility fixes. He also runs offshore development operations in India and co-founded multiple startups, showing both product and global delivery chops. Based in Vista, CA, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a rare mix of DevOps, back-end, and startup scaling expertise.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Beverly Hills High SchoolUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (34)
conda-build10
conda-forge10
docker10
character-encoding10
jupyterhub10
python10
package-management10
windows10
configuration-management10
conda10
windows-xp10
dockers10
automation10
go10
docker-container10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
conda/conda-build
Mar 2014 - Jul 2017
Commands and tools for building conda packages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 30 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to improving the stability and compatibility of the `conda-build` package, focusing on Python 2 and Unicode handling. The user fixed multiple bugs related to Unicode encoding in environment dictionaries, particularly when interacting with external processes and package dependencies. They also replaced `str` with `text_type` for Python 2/3 compatibility and improved error messaging related to git operations, enhancing the robustness of the build process.
condaconda-buildpackage-management
jupyterhub/dockerspawner
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Spawns JupyterHub single user servers in Docker containers
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 22 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the DockerSpawner's functionality and robustness within a JupyterHub environment. Their contributions included fixing deprecation warnings, allowing for configurable host IPs, addressing Windows-specific IP address retrieval issues, and enhancing the method used to determine the Docker host. Furthermore, they resolved hostname issues related to local named pipes. Their work appears aimed at improving the container spawning and networking aspects of the DockerSpawner.
docker-containerjupyterhubspawnerjupyterdockerspawner
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