About David

Programming passionately since 1988, David Christian Liedle has spent nearly four decades exploring what computers can do—and helping other people do more with them.

He opened his first development studio in Central Georgia in 1998 and incorporated his business three years later. As the web grew from an emerging medium into the foundation of modern software, David grew with it: building applications, leading development teams, designing architectures, managing products, conducting research and development, and helping organizations adopt new technologies.

His career has taken him from startups and small businesses to government agencies and Fortune 50 companies, with work spanning healthcare, pharmaceuticals, education, media, telecommunications, developer tools, and enterprise software. Along the way he has worked with distributed teams across the United States and around the world.

Over time, a recurring theme emerged: David was as interested in helping developers understand technology as he was in building it.

That led naturally into Developer Relations. As a technical author, international speaker, trainer, mentor, product manager, Developer Advocate, and Developer Evangelist, David has spent much of his career translating complex technology into something developers can understand, experiment with, and make their own.

His curiosity has never been limited to a particular language or stack. Over the years he has worked across generations of programming languages, operating systems, frameworks, databases, and development environments—often exploring technologies simply because they offered a different way of thinking about software.

Today, that exploration increasingly includes artificial intelligence.

David uses AI not merely as a coding assistant, but as a collaborator in software development: setting direction, designing systems, evaluating ideas, and allowing increasingly autonomous agents to participate in the implementation. His current open-source work explores developer environments, distributed systems, artificial life, programming languages, local-first software, and new models of human–AI collaboration.

Projects such as NMOX Studio and unit continue a pattern that has existed throughout his career: find an interesting question, build something to investigate it, and share what he learns.

After nearly four decades, the technology has changed enormously.

The motivation hasn't.

David still builds software because he wants to know what happens next.

Peace, Love, and Harmony.

See David's CV and portfolio for further details.