Dave Hoover
Relational Coach
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDave Hoover is a multidisciplinary leader blending 20+ years of software craftsmanship, startup scaling, and relational therapy. He co-founded Dev Bootcamp, authored Apprenticeship Patterns, and has led engineering teams and product efforts across fintech and Web3—most recently as Flexa CTO and a contributor to high-profile open-source projects like Selenium and the Ethereum Remix IDE. Equally comfortable writing Solidity and Golang as he is practicing therapy, Dave runs Red Squirrel consulting while training toward LMFT licensure and coaching couples and teams through his Growing Us practice. His track record includes founding, exiting multiple companies, angel investing, and launching developer education products for smart contract engineers. That rare combination of technical depth, educator mindset, and clinical training lets him surface human dynamics inside engineering organizations as well as in relationships. Based in Evanston, IL, he brings entrepreneurial grit, systems thinking, and hands-on code contributions to both technical and relational challenges.
20 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling, Master of Science - MS, Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling at Seattle Pacific UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology at Wheaton College
Github Skills (28)
programming-language10
javascript10
solidity10
pytest10
selenium10
back-end-development10
selenium-ide10
ruby10
remix10
web3js10
ethereum10
remix-ide10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
documentation10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum/remix-ide
May 2016 - Feb 2018
Documentation for Remix IDE
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 PRs, 131 comments, 7 issues in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on enhancing the Remix IDE, a web-based IDE for Ethereum smart contracts. Their contributions included optimizing the code by improving import handling, adjusting web3 provider settings, and refactoring code into modules. They also worked on features related to the user interface, tabbed menu, and compiler integration, demonstrating a focus on improving user experience and code maintainability within the IDE.
debugging-toolethereumblockchainevmdapps-development
ethereum/solidity
Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 86 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the documentation of the Solidity project. Their commits focused on correcting typos, clarifying language, and updating examples within the documentation files. They also made minor edits to improve clarity and address inconsistencies in the documentation. The contributions improve the quality and usability of the Solidity documentation.
cppsmart-contractethereumcontractblockchain
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.