About Me

Hello! My name is David Alber.

I’ve generally worked on software. I started my career as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). Since then, I’ve worked in industry roles splitting my time between being an individual contributor and technical leader.

I’m currently aspiring to find meaningful and impactful opportunities working on climate change solutions. Prior to that I was the founding Director of Engineering at a youth mental health startup called Joon Care. My roles before that were at Redfin, Walk Score (which was acquired by Redfin), Microsoft, and NREL.

My academic background is numerical analysis, which is a lot about how math is done accurately on computers, as well as how various classes of problems, such as giant systems of linear equations, are solved effectively on computers. At one time, I knew a fair bit about direct and indirect linear solvers, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and numerical linear algebra in general.

I grew up near Iowa City, Iowa and went to high school and college there. I attended graduate school in Urbana, Illinois, and spent a couple years in Golden, Colorado at NREL. Now, I live in Seattle with my wife and our two young sons.

You can learn more about my professional background from my LinkedIn profile . More details about my academic background and publications (from long ago ) are here.