David Simmer
Bio
David Simmer is a designer and engineer with a couple decades of experience building for people who use the web. Homeschooled as a kid, and having shifted to working in tech as second career, he's had a weird and fortunate career journey.
Most recently, he's been a fullstack engineer at Netflix for 5+ years working on a wide variety of efforts: GraphQL Federation, unifying UX across internal tools, improving the experience of software migrations large and small, and cross-functional projects that make other engineers' days better.
After five years away in California, he now lives in St Paul with his wife Cleo and two rescue dogs named Chuck and Greta. Among other hobbies, he plays piano, mountain bikes, skis, and is learning to build cabinetry.
Website: https://simmer.ooo
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Presenting Sessions
- "Luddite" Is A Compliment
- LED The Way: From Plug-and-Play to Hacking with WLED
- Expertise vs Automation: the Choice that Makes You
Past Presentations
Participating Sessions
- Advanced Fiddler Techniques
- Cryptography 101
- ✨ AI for Personal Health: Safely Improving Wellness 🏄♂️
- Lead Where You Are: The Skill of Intentional Adaptability
- My year with cancer: A tech retrospective
- Horror Movie Survival: Protecting Yourself From Airborne Pathogens
- The Five Poisons of Business: Identifying and Transforming Destructive Patterns
- Identity and Personhood Credentials in the 21st century
- "Luddite" Is A Compliment
- LED The Way: From Plug-and-Play to Hacking with WLED
- 🎼 How To Direct a Software Team When You Have No Idea What They’re Talking About
- Testing Products for Accessibility: Why Manual and Automated Testing Go Hand-in-Hand 👨🦽➡️👩🦯➡️🤖🤝
- How to Automate your Home and not Lose your Family
- Saying sayonara to AWS: Leave the cloud. Run hardware. Save $10 million.
- Expertise vs Automation: the Choice that Makes You
- Exploring the Question “What Is It We Understand We Are Testing For?”
- 💎 DevTool Diamonds: Power Features You Didn’t Know Existed
- How to (Privately!) Surf the Internet
- The Art of Following
- Back to the <Future />: A Brief History of Web Development
- Deepfake 101: What’s Real, What’s Not, and What to Do About It
- Radical Sabbatical - How I structured one year of creative web-dev
- Lock Picking for Fun (not profit)