Summary
David Bieder is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a 20+ year track record advising startups and Fortune 100s on sustainable delivery practices. Based in Berlin, he treats software as a living system—advocating weekly increments, continuous feedback, test automation, and relentless refactoring to reduce risk and keep products maintainable. His work has powered products at organizations such as American Airlines, IBM, Financial Times, BP and Allstate, and he has trained over 500 engineers to consistently ship fully tested features without sacrificing quality. Unusually, he blends deep technical rigor (summa cum laude Diplom-Informatiker and electronics/IT certification) with a coaching mindset, creating engineers as well as software. Clients value him for delivering user-focused solutions quickly while preventing costly rewrites down the line.
11 years of coding experience
Certified Technical Assistant for Electronics & Information Technology, Computer Science + Electrical Engineering, GPA 1.3 - from 1.0 (best) to 5.0, Certified Technical Assistant for Electronics & Information Technology, Computer Science + Electrical Engineering, GPA 1.3 - from 1.0 (best) to 5.0 at Lette Verein Berlin
Diplom-Informatiker (FH), Computer Science, summa cum laude, Diplom-Informatiker (FH), Computer Science, summa cum laude at Fachhochschule Lausitz
English, German