To quote 24601, who am I?
I am Dave Aronson, a retired software development consultant (meaning I wrote code and gave advice about how), with about forty years of professional experience in a wide variety of languages, systems, techniques, and domains. Further details have been elided from here upon retirement. :-)
Aside from actual hands-on software development, I also enjoy speaking at conferences, especially in interesting places where I can take a few extra days to play tourist. (The picture above is from JSConf Hawai’i 2020.)
Relatedly, I also maintain a CfP (Call for Papers/Presentations/Proposals) list (what’s closing in the next 30 days) available here. (This is actually a smallish subset of a much larger one I maintain for the Speakers Network within the Toptal consulting network. Please use that link to hire or join them, the anchor is my referral tag.)
On personal notes: I am married to a smart cutie who doesn’t like publicity, so no more details there. For now, we live in City of Fairfax, VA (a suburb of Washington, DC), and are owned by two cats, but we plan to move to Porto, Portugal around July 2026. In my spare time, I brew mead, and maintain a website about it.