David Laidig
Senior Technical Writer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Laidig is a Senior Technical Writer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience specializing in transit technology and developer-facing documentation. He blends systems engineering rigor from managing large-scale transit projects (including a $60M real-time bus tracking deployment) with product-focused docs leadership at Google and Waymo. David has led documentation for cloud-native and multi-cloud developer experiences (Anthos, GKE) and translates complex engineering workflows into clear, testable internal documentation. He also consults on open transit-data standards and builds validation tools, bringing a startup-style hands-on approach to data quality and developer enablement. Known for moving projects from pilot to production, he combines technical approvals, QA/testing, and user-centered docs to reduce friction across interdisciplinary teams. His background in transportation research and hands-on GIS/dev work gives him uncommon depth in both operational transit systems and developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science; Master of Science, Transportation, Civil Engineering; Transportation; urban public transportation, Master of Science; Master of Science, Transportation, Civil Engineering; Transportation; urban public transportation at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,068reputation
157kreached
36answers
30questions
Github Skills (119)
public-transportation10
ui-components10
sms10
datasets10
transit10
gtfs10
google-cloud10
mobility10
transit-data10
ionic10
api10
steam10
java10
angularjs-directive10
open-data10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
laidig/nyct-gtfs-rt-example
Feb 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
laidig/traccar-load-tester
Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
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