Summary
Dave Wolfe is a seasoned software engineer and front-end designer with a decade of focused experience building polished user experiences, currently contributing at Apple from Portland, Oregon. His career blends product design and front-end engineering across roles at Automattic, Walmart eCommerce, and long-running freelance work, reflecting a rare mix of hands-on UI implementation and strategic UX leadership. Dave is comfortable shipping prototypes to production, having led prototyping teams and UX architecture while also writing and crafting web copy earlier in his career. He brings an eye for design-driven engineering and a history of pivoting between product design and implementation, which helps bridge stakeholder vision and developer reality. Notably, his background spans both large enterprise e-commerce and nimble freelance projects, giving him versatility in team size and process.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics/Philosophy/Symbolic Systems, Mathematics/Philosophy/Symbolic Systems at Reed College