# David Beale (slim)

> David Beale is creator of neckbeard. neckbeard on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Creator of neckbeard.

David Beale created neckbeard, which he publishes from his GitHub account bealesh.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbealejr
- X: https://x.com/davidbeale
- GitHub: https://github.com/bealesh

## What David builds

- [neckbeard](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neckbeard.md), graded B, 64.5/100, in Cloud & 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.

## Questions

### Who is David Beale?

David Beale created neckbeard, which he publishes from his GitHub account bealesh.

### What does neckbeard (GitHub user bealesh) make?

Anchor Terminal lists neckbeard from neckbeard (GitHub user bealesh).

### How are David's tools graded?

neckbeard is graded B, 64.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://neckbeard.sh/
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bealesh/neckbeard/HEAD/README.md
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bealesh/neckbeard/HEAD/SECURITY.md
- https://github.com/bealesh
- https://beale.sh/

These 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.