Dave Gardner
Vice President Of Architecture And Engineering at Sony Interactive Entertainment
New Braunfels, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Gardner is a seasoned technology executive with over 20 years of software development and architecture experience and more than a decade leading customer-facing engineering organizations. Currently VP of Architecture and Engineering at Sony Interactive Entertainment, he has a track record of designing and modernizing large-scale, distributed enterprise systems across commerce, marketing, and digital transformation for companies like Dell, Lenovo, and AMD. He specializes in integrating complex systems—search, big data, machine-learned personalized customer journeys—and has driven measurable business outcomes such as improved search CTR and record holiday sales performance. A pragmatic leader of leaders, he builds high-performing teams and champions engineering excellence, DDD, TDD, and continuous delivery practices. Based in New Braunfels, Texas, he brings rare depth across C#, C++, Java, and web/mobile stacks while blending hands-on technical judgment with strategic enterprise governance. Notably, his recent focus on ML-driven personalization reflects a shift from platform engineering to shaping customer loyalty through data-driven journeys.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
2 Years Computer Science, 2 Years Computer Science at American River College
Github Skills (7)
dotnet2
authentication2
asp-net-core2
password-manager2
asp-net2
json2
csharp2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DavidMGardner/sogeti.capstone
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
DavidMGardner/Salesforce.Migrations.Assistant
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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