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  "markdown": "Creator of neckbeard.\n\nDavid Beale created neckbeard, which he publishes from his GitHub account bealesh. He describes himself as a web and cloud practitioner and works as a site reliability engineer at PayNearMe, with a focus on Kubernetes, TypeScript, Go, Python, GCP, AWS and Terraform.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbealejr\n- X: https://x.com/davidbeale\n- GitHub: https://github.com/bealesh\n\n## What David builds\n\n- [neckbeard](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard.md), graded B, 64.5/100, in Cloud \u0026 infrastructure. neckbeard is an open-source Claude Code plugin and Go CLI that maps an application onto a catalogue of OpenTofu modules for AWS, GCP or Azure, renders environments and CI pipelines deterministically, and estimates the monthly bill with Infracost. Creator of neckbeard, founder, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is David Beale?\n\nDavid Beale created neckbeard, which he publishes from his GitHub account bealesh. He describes himself as a web and cloud practitioner and works as a site reliability engineer at PayNearMe, with a focus on Kubernetes, TypeScript, Go, Python, GCP, AWS and Terraform.\n\n### What does neckbeard (GitHub user bealesh) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists neckbeard from neckbeard (GitHub user bealesh). neckbeard is an open-source Claude Code plugin and Go CLI that maps an application onto a catalogue of OpenTofu modules for AWS, GCP or Azure, renders environments and CI pipelines deterministically, and estimates the monthly bill with Infracost.\n\n### How are David's tools graded?\n\nneckbeard is graded B, 64.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://neckbeard.sh/\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bealesh/neckbeard/HEAD/README.md\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bealesh/neckbeard/HEAD/SECURITY.md\n- https://github.com/bealesh\n- https://beale.sh/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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