David Bock
Vice President Of Strategic Development
Hamilton, Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarDavid Bock is a seasoned technology leader and strategic operator with 17+ years of experience turning product ideas into executed business plans as VP of Strategic Development at Core4ce. He blends hands-on engineering and SRE/DevOps expertise from prior VP and director roles—running internal IT, reliability, QA, security, and release operations—while also scaling teams and processes at companies like Decisiv, LivingSocial, and Excella. A longtime community builder and educator, he founded the Loudoun Computer Science Initiative, volunteers as an AP CS lab TA, and previously ran the large NoVa Java Users Group and co-founded RubyNation. David maintains notable open-source work in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem (including business_time and font-awesome-rails), showing he still writes and ships code while leading. His background includes rare public-sector export-control software for the State Department, reflecting comfort with highly regulated, mission-critical systems. He combines practical delivery, developer advocacy, and curriculum-building to improve engineering organizations from both tactical and strategic angles.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
datetime10
date-manipulation10
css10
rails10
datetimes10
ruby10
dates10
font-awesome10
asset-pipeline10
business-logic10
ruby-on-rails10
front-end-development9
activesupport9
configuration-management8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bokmann/business_time
Apr 2010 - Feb 2021
Support for doing time math in business hours and days
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:186 commits, 44 PRs, 62 pushes in 11 years
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on developing and refining core business logic within the `business_time` project. Their contributions included implementing classes and methods for calculating time differences based on business hours and days. They wrote unit tests to ensure the functionality, taking into account weekends and holidays. The user also added configuration options for holidays and business hours.
ruby-on-railsmathrailsbusiness-hours
bokmann/font-awesome-rails
Mar 2012 - Jan 2013
the font-awesome font bundled as an asset for the rails asset pipeline
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:David appears to be involved in creating a Rails gem for the Font Awesome icon font. Their primary contribution was integrating the Font Awesome CSS and font files into the Rails asset pipeline. They modified the CSS to correctly reference asset paths and updated the gem's version. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to a stylesheet to reflect correct asset pipeline locations.
asset-pipelinerails
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