Dave Walker
Engineering Manager at Workiva
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Walker is an engineering manager with over a decade of hands-on software experience and 15+ years in the industry, currently leading a core platform engineering team at Workiva focused on architecture, extensibility, and third-party integrations for a document platform. He has a track record of building large SaaS systems—from university platforms and federal procurement tools to SEC compliance software—and was creator and lead developer of an abstract messaging platform that bridged multiple IoT protocols. Dave excels at aligning cross-product teams to standardize architecture, improve observability, and drive consistent engineering practices while engaging directly with clients to shape roadmaps. A pragmatic builder who still ships code, he brings systems-level thinking from his Applied Networking and Systems Administration background and a preference for clear, compensated conversations.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Applied Networking and Systems Administration, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Applied Networking and Systems Administration at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (71)
reboot10
interpreter10
gevent10
composer10
dependency-manager10
bitbar10
oauth2-server10
package-manager10
asynchronous10
plugin10
php10
oauth10
tornado9
thrift9
python-web9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bp1222/vimrc
Feb 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
bp1222/php-src
Jun 2016 - Jul 2018
The PHP Interpreter
Contributions:241 pushes, 46 branches, 6 comments in 2 years 1 month
phpinterpreterphp71
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