Summary
Daun Davids is a Lead Software Engineer specializing in mobile development with over a decade of hands-on experience building and shipping Android apps, now leading mobile engineering at Mayo Clinic. He combines deep Java and Kotlin expertise with formal training in computational sciences and robotics, and holds both CSD and CSM certifications that reflect his strength in agile delivery and team leadership. His background spans startups (founding Sky Woman Technology), enterprise systems (Hewlett-Packard, Kingland), and long-term product ownership at Mayo Clinic where he progressed from senior engineer to lead roles. He also has teaching experience in Python, Java and C#, and a history of building real-time location and user-facing animation features that reveal a practical focus on smooth UX under constrained mobile conditions. Unusually, his career bridges early C/C++ systems work and modern Android architectures, giving him fluency across low-level performance concerns and high-level app design.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Master of Science (M.S.), Master of Science (M.S.) at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
PhD, PhD at Dakota State University