Dave is the principal consultant at Platform D, a developer programs consulting company. With over 7 years of developer marketing experience, Dave helps companies such as Wetpaint, Nirvanix, StrikeIron and Bungee Labs, create and run their own developer programs. Prior to Platform D, Dave was PayPal's first Technical Evangelist and went on to grow the PayPal Developer Network to over 350,000 developers. Dave gained modest notoriety when he proposed to his wife in his book PayPal Hacks. Dave is also the co-creator of the Openface Project, an open source project used to build Facebook and OpenSocial applications.