About

Dave Woodall is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience in full-stack software development, specializing in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) with SOLID principles. Dave has a proven track record of leading the design and development of software and web applications, delivering innovative products, features, and improvements to enhance user experience. Dave is well-versed in modern web technologies, advanced technical approaches, and software engineering best practices to build secure, scalable, and reliable web applications, backend APIs, and delivery/maintenance. He has a strong proficiency in Agile processes, including sprint planning, bug scrubs, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups. Dave's technical expertise includes building and enhancing tools, applications, and platforms using web technologies and OOD/OOP to lead architecture and development of new applications/product features. He is experienced in building and designing, testing, and deploying modern web applications, leading frontend/backend development, ensuring continuous integration of technologies/systems, software, and programming languages for new customer experiences. Dave's proficiency in Rails Stack includes Ruby, Postgres/PostgreSQL, Devise, RSpec, Minitest, FactoryBot, Capybara, Pundit, Stripe, AMS, Rake, and Heroku. He is also proficient in Git, HTML5, and CSS3. Currently, Dave is working at davewoodall.com as a Software Engineer, focusing on Ruby on Rails. He wrote code responsible for processing $370,078,098.86 in Gross sales for 2021. He is the sole engineer on an application that manages $33M/mo ($400M/yr) in credit card transactions for the fuel industry, from concept to completion of Ruby on Rails Monolith application. Dave has provided consulting services to Fortune 500 companies and small businesses and worked for a leading provider of cybersecurity/human-driven phishing defense solutions worldwide. He has also worked on a Ruby Gem for Data Scientist to experiment with conversion rates and built a Rails backend BackboneJS pseudo-SPA that interacted with Salesforce API to process customer service center. Dave holds a Master's degree in Finance, General from the University of Denver - Daniels College of Business and a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Communications from Liberty University.