David Longnecker
Director, Small Business Products at H&R Block
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Longnecker is a product and technology leader with 16+ years of experience building people-centered software and leading diverse teams, currently serving as Director of Small Business Products at H&R Block. He bridges business strategy and engineering, designing right-sized application architectures and data platforms while championing agile practices, cross-organizational mentoring, and continuous learning. An entrepreneur at heart who has held CTO and VP engineering roles, he excels at translating customer needs into pragmatic solutions for organizations of all sizes. A longtime open-source contributor, David has contributed backend enhancements to Fluent NHibernate—adding Oracle dialect support and relationship ordering—reflecting his comfort with databases and integration work. Based in Kansas City and holding an MBA, he combines operational rigor with a hands-on developer mindset and a knack for fostering long-term, values-aligned partnerships.
16 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
AS International Business, AS International Business at Butler Community CollegeMBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at Baker University
English, Spanish, French, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
oracles10
oracle10
orm10
fluentnhibernate10
csharp10
nhibernate10
testing9
database-connection9
charts9
server-configuration9
databases9
database9
powershell9
asp-net6
command-prompt6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nhibernate/fluent-nhibernate
Jul 2009 - Aug 2009
Fluent NHibernate!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 20 days
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Fluent NHibernate project. Their work focused on adding support for Oracle database dialects, including Oracle 9i and 10g, by modifying configuration classes and testing files. They also added an `OrderBy` method to the `ManyToManyPart` class, enhancing the flexibility of many-to-many relationships. Finally, they made changes to the Oracle connection string builder, specifically removing the default setting for the statement cache size.
dotnetc-sharpnhibernatecsharpfluent-nhibernate
drlongnecker/Thought.vCards
Sep 2011 - Jun 2018
vCard Class Library for .NET
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years 10 months
dotnetvcardclass-libraryc-sharpcsharp
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