David Kaiser

I built an open source platform to help people quickly find food, shelter, housing assistance, and legal support in their local community. I started by focusing on the Des Moines metro with food pantries, with the goal of making real-world resources easier to access when people need them most. The idea is simple: • Anyone can run their own local instance • Communities can contribute and keep information up to date • The system is designed to scale city by city If you're working in civic tech, nonprofits, or community organizations, I’d love your feedback. https://ournewbridge.org/ https://lnkd.in/gUCC4itX

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**St. Louis Atlassian Community’s 12th Anniversary** Twelve years ago this week - on a cold, wintry Feb 25, 2014 - more than a dozen hardy souls gathered in downtown St. Louis for our first Atlassian User Group (AUG) event. We met at the then-only brick-and-mortar Atlassian partner in St. Louis, Contegix. Fun fact: Contegix was the first U.S.-based Atlassian partner, dating back to 2002. Atlassian was still about a year away from going public when we first gathered. How did we get people to come out on a wintry night? There was a lot of enthusiasm around Atlassian and people wanted to learn more about how to use the tools, from each other and from experienced presenters. And that hasn’t stopped. More than 60 events later — averaging an impressive 30+ attendees per gathering — I’m grateful for a community that consistently punches above its weight. It’s now time for me to transition leadership of the StL ACE - over the next year - to two new Community Champions (formerly known as User Group Leaders), Sarah and James, who will keep the ball rolling. More on both of them at the end of this post. ⸻ 👉 A Few Milestones from Our Journey • Our first event took place nearly two years before Atlassian’s IPO on December 10, 2015. • In fiscal year 2014, Atlassian’s annual revenue was approximately $215 million. In fiscal year 2025 (ending June 30, 2025), revenue reached $5.2 billion — remarkable growth in just over a decade. • Back in 2014, St. Louis was home to just one Atlassian partner. Today, our ecosystem has grown to include multiple partners—both brick-and-mortar and virtual—as well as remote Atlassians across the region who actively engage in and strengthen our Community. • We’ve welcomed nearly 1,000 registered members. • We’ve hosted on-site presenters from St. Louis, across the U.S., and around the world. • Our annual August social — still called “AUG in Aug” (a nod to our Atlassian User Group roots) — has become a signature event, typically drawing 50+ attendees. Members have enjoyed generous sponsor raffles and meaningful access to Atlassian customers, partners, and Atlassians themselves. If the tradition continues, this August will mark our 11th “AUG in Aug.” 💪 • We navigated a global pandemic by going virtual for a couple of years. ⸻ *Welcoming Our New Community Champions* I’m excited to introduce our new leaders, whom many in our local group have met: James Nippert and Sarah Wright Sarah attended our very first event in 2014 and has been a dedicated member ever since. A few years ago, a conversation at a community event helped spark her move to an Atlassian partner — a great example of this community in action. James is newer to the StL ACE but brings deep credentials and works with one of St. Louis’s newest Atlassian partners. Together, I’m confident they’ll take our Community to even higher levels of engagement and impact. Join us at an upcoming event! Our next gathering is on March 10. #atlassiancommunity #ACE

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The #1 Mistake in Federal Staffing ⚠️ The #1 Mistake Federal Contractors Make in Staffing? 🚫 Hiring reactively ✅ Instead of planning proactively with a niche partner Every delay in hiring = delayed delivery = poor CPARS = lost recompetes. At Infonyx, we: ✔️ Maintain pre-vetted talent pipelines ✔️ Understand clearance, contract types & labor categories ✔️ Offer direct, contract & project-based hires If you’re building a federal team… build it right. #FederalStaffing #GovConLife #InfonyxSolutions #ITStaffing #ClearedCandidates #ProposalReadiness

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You might have heard that Ohio's TechCred was paused in January. If you're looking for 5-star AI strategy and training, get in the front of the line now so you don't miss out when it reopens this spring!

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We have more developer training programs than ever. Cohorts. Accelerators. Bootcamps. Technical assistance grants. Capacity building workshops. Fellowship programs. Developers are showing up more educated, more prepared, and more capitally literate than at any point in this industry’s history. And they’re still not closing. Not because they aren’t ready. Because the underwriting framework they’re walking into hasn’t changed. Same debt service coverage ratios built for institutional-scale projects. Same personal guarantee requirements that assume generational wealth. Same 18-month timelines that bleed out small developers before they ever get to closing. We keep investing in developer readiness. We almost never invest in institutional readiness. The question nobody’s asking at these convenings: What if the developers aren’t the ones who need more training? What if the system they’re being trained to enter is the thing that’s broken? A developer can have the cleanest capital stack memo you’ve ever seen. If your underwriting criteria can’t receive it, that’s not a developer problem. That’s an infrastructure problem. And no amount of cohorts will fix it. #communitydevelopment #realestatedeveloper #realestate

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Been seeing a lot of buzz around Profiles getting retired in Spring ’26 👀 Here’s the real story: ➡️ Profiles are NOT going away completely. What is happening → Starting Spring ’26, permission assignments will move fully to Permission Sets & Permission Set Groups (for NEW orgs). That means → No more using Profiles for CRUD, FLS, or Apex permissions. And honestly… it’s about time. Why this is GOOD for us: ✅ More flexibility ✅ Granular control ✅ Better security But remember → Profiles will still exist for things like: 🔸 Page layouts 🔸 Login hours / IPs 🔸 Default apps It’s not just an update → It’s a mindset shift. Stop thinking Profiles → Start thinking Permission Set-first architecture. I’ve already started aligning my implementations this way. Have you? Goodbye Profile-based permissions. Hello better architecture. #Salesforce #PermissionSets #Spring26 #Architecture #Security #ProfilesRIP #Leadership

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