Dave is the co-founder and CTO of Heirloom Software, a start-up using technology (including user-experience design, application development and big-data disciplines) to revolutionize the family-history and genealogy world. He has been "working with computers" for over 20 years, is an 11-time Microsoft MVP, and full-stack web developer, trainer and author focusing on JavaScript, NodeJS, document DBs and C#. He presents regularly at both technical and genealogy conferences.