Articles by David Fullerton

Chief Technology Officer

David Fullerton is the Chief Technology Officer of Stack Overflow, responsible for all software development, design, and site reliability. David joined Stack Overflow in 2010 as a Development Team Lead before assuming a leadership role as Vice President of Engineering in 2012. He has a B.A. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, and holds strong opinions on working remotely, private offices, and engineering management in general.

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How You Can Use the New Stack Overflow Bot from Microsoft

by David Fullerton on September 25, 2017

As Joel often says, “developers are writing the script for the future,” and that is definitely the case when it comes to AI. The knowledge shared on Stack Overflow includes...

Why We (Still) Believe in Private Offices

by David Fullerton on January 16, 2015

There was a time where it seemed like we barely even needed to talk about this: Joel had won the argument, the Internet agreed that private offices were the future,...

Announcing Bosun, our new open source monitoring & alerting system

by David Fullerton on November 11, 2014

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Stack Exchange for Android is here!

by David Fullerton on January 27, 2014

This mobile thing will never last, right? We figured if we waited long enough, this whole “mobile application” thing would blow over and everything would go back to the way...

Stack Exchange Creative Commons data now hosted by the Internet Archive

by David Fullerton on January 23, 2014

We’ve been publishing an anonymized dump of all user-contributed Stack Exchange content since 2009. Unfortunately, at the end of last year our former host, ClearBits, permanently shut down. So we...