David Dresser
Principal Software Engineer at Veracode
Farmington, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Dresser is a Principal Software Engineer with nearly four decades of experience specializing in mainframe and distributed systems, currently shaping secure application delivery at Veracode. He has deep hands-on expertise in Java, C++, COBOL, and Assembler, and has led complex projects like Topaz Workbench, Vantage, and File-AID that bridge z/OS and Windows environments. David excels at root-cause analysis, compatibility testing, and migrating legacy products to modern Java runtimes and security frameworks (Spring Security, Kerberos, certificate auth). He thrives as an individual contributor on Agile teams, closing design gaps and optimizing performance across RDBMS-backed reporting and CI pipelines. Based in Farmington, MI, he seeks full-time remote roles and brings a pragmatic focus on clean integrations and long-lived, auditable software.
9 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Philosopy Philosopy / Computer Science, Bachelor of Philosopy Philosopy / Computer Science at Wayne State University
Github Skills (8)
code-coverage8
coverage8
jenkins-api-plugin7
api6
jenkins-plugin6
debug4
vscode-extension4
vscode3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dave-dresser/tutorial-hello-world
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
reactjavascriptgit-tutorialnodejstypescript
jenkinsci/compuware-xpediter-code-coverage-plugin
Jan 2018 - Mar 2022
Compuware Topaz ® interface to specify Code Coverage ® parameters
Contributions:5 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
parametersspecifycoveragecode-coveragecompuware-topaz
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