Dave Skender
Engineering Manager at Era Finance
Potomac, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolDave Skender is an engineering manager and product-oriented leader with 10+ years building and scaling cloud-native SaaS and civic-tech platforms, currently leading engineering at Era Finance. He blends hands-on software delivery, DevOps, and product strategy from roles that ranged from founding engineering teams to managing 30-person orgs in healthcare analytics. As a Presidential Innovation Fellow embedded at CISA, he led creation of a first-of-its-kind government cybersecurity marketplace, demonstrating an aptitude for translating complex public-sector requirements into usable product experiences. He also operates Skender Co., providing product engineering services to startups, and has recent experience advising an AI-powered personal finance app. Comfortable at the intersection of startup speed and enterprise rigor, he brings MBA-trained business judgment plus mechanical engineering roots to technical decision-making. Based in Potomac, MD, he’s open to full-time, contract, or co-founder opportunities that leverage his mix of civic-tech, fintech, and healthcare domain experience.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, New Venture / Entrepreneurship + Finance, MBA, New Venture / Entrepreneurship + Finance at Indiana University - Kelley School of BusinessBS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (163)
nuget10
python10
trading10
stock-chart10
backtesting10
charting10
cryptocurrency10
technical-indicators10
backend10
dotnet10
indicator10
forex10
angular10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
facioquo/stock-indicators-python-quickstart
Apr 2024 - Jul 2026
QuickStart tutorial for getting started with Stock Indicators for Python. This is for developers who may be new to Python or who need clarification about setting up prerequisites.
Contributions:1 review, 19 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 3 months
pythonstock-indicators
GSA/SaferFederalWorkforce.gov
Feb 2021 - Oct 2025
Safer Federal Workforce website
Contributions:2 reviews, 92 PRs, 254 pushes in 4 years 8 months
workforcesaferfederal
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