• Title: Principal Community Architect
• Location: Apex, NC
• Working Hours & Timezone: Roughly 8:00 am - 8:00 pm US Eastern Time. I don't work all of those hours, but that's pretty much when I can be considered available.
• Name Preference: Please, don't call me Dave. I prefer David, or dg
• Pronouns: He/Him
• Website: Main Site or the repo for it. PRs welcomed

Work accounts for a good portion of my time, of course, but it's not all of who I am.

I lift weights, I hang with my dogs, I cook and I bake, etc. I love woodworking, and I'm getting my shop back up and running as best I can.

I have 2 Rottweilers: Bruno, who is my Service Dog, and Heidi.

This is Bruno, hard at work:

And this is how Heidi works, most of the time:

I work with a couple of local Rottweiler Rescue groups, which is how I came to have Heidi. She's a failed foster and my little snuggle doglet. If you want to support Rottweiler Rescue, please donate to Rottweiler Hearts Rescue and give as generously as you can.

I'm a Principal Community Architect for Upstream AI Projects at Red Hat. I work in an actual office (3-4 days a week) and from home the rest of the time. This is a change as I have worked remotely full-time since 2006.

If you're looking for tips on how to be effective as a remote worker, I'm happy to talk to you about it!

I am on the Board of Directors and one of the moderators (AKA Benevolent Dictators) for the DevRel Collective. The DevRel Collective is a group of over 2,500 DevRel professionals on Slack where we talk about ... well, just about everything! I also completely rebuilt their website using Hugo

I did not take a 'traditional' path into tech. I even wrote a whole thing on it a while back! But I've been in tech now longer than I was ever in anything else.

My Primary goal is to help people. I call it Being of Service™. It's sort of what my entire life is based on: being of maximum service to others. So being successful means I've helped someone. Or I've helped lots of people. I've made a positive impact on someone's life. It's why I mentor people in the industry. If you're looking for a mentor, let's talk.

• Issues: Feel free to file issues here about any project I'm working on, etc.
• Twitter: Reach out any time on twitter about just about anything. DMs are always open too. Deleted.
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/davidgs.com
• Slack: If you're in one of the many Slack communities I'm in, feel free to reach out there (I'm usually @davidgs on most Slacks I'm in).
• Email: Probably the least-reliable way to get me to respond. :-) But sure, email me if you feel absolutely compelled to.