About Dave
I am Dave Johnson. I am a software developer / tech writer / blogger / scientist living and working in Vancouver where there is lots of great mountain biking and skiing. Back in the wild west of Web 1.0 circa 1998 Andre, James and I started a little web development shop while still in high school. Today we are named Nitobi and have grown organically based entirely on our hard work and a generally mythical thing called revenue. At the same time I have received a few degrees from the University of British Columbia (BaSC) and Imperial College London (PhD).
Today Nitobi (and by extension I) focuses on all aspects of software engineering from requirements gathering and software design to information architecture and user experience design. We are fairly technology and methodology agnostic and prefer to just get things done but have a penchant towards JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Merb, Flex and AIR technologies coupled with agile methodologies.