David Whalley has been serving as one of the two senior associate editors for the ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) journal since 2016. He handles papers for which the ACM TACO Editor-in-Chief (EiC) has conflicts and provides advice for the ACM TACO EiC when needed. In addition, he is assigned ACM TACO submitted papers to find reviewers just as the other ACM TACO associate editors. The TACO Senior Associate Editor is equivalent to an Associate Editor-in-Chief, as stated by the TACO Editor-in-Chief David Kaeli. David Whalley also serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers journal.