Summary
David Koval is a pragmatic software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building production systems at Citi and founding a real estate company straight out of high school. He combines mainframe COBOL/JCL expertise with modern Java, Spring, JavaScript, PHP, and web development skills, and has shipped cost-saving automation and trading tools. Currently pursuing a 4.0 Master's in Computer Science, he blends a customer-first mindset from healthcare and property management with strong delivery habits in both remote and enterprise environments. Known for formalizing legacy code to standards and creating automated audit/reporting pipelines, he excels at making brittle systems more reliable and auditable. Comfortable leading small teams or working individually, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a consistent focus on improving experiences for users, coworkers, and stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (Major), Mathematics (Minor), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (Major), Mathematics (Minor) at The University of South Dakota
Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian, English