David Proctor
Manager, Product Engineering at Braze
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Proctor is a pragmatic software engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable, test-driven backend cloud applications, most recently leading product engineering at Braze after a multi-year tenure managing Social Media archiving at Pagefreezer. He combines hands-on coding in Python (and experience in Go, C#, C++, and Java) with team leadership—recruiting, mentoring, performance management, and cross-functional architecture and roadmap alignment. David has a strong QA and automation background demonstrated by contributions to the widely used NUnit framework, improving platform-specific test coverage and robustness. He thrives on taking over legacy systems, documenting and improving them, and shipping reliable production fixes under pressure. Outside work he channels creativity into comic-book writing and a seasonal balance of softball and poker, reflecting a blend of analytical focus and storytelling instincts.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Bachelor of Arts, double-major: communication (with honours) and political science, Bachelor of Arts, double-major: communication (with honours) and political science at Simon Fraser University
English, German
Github Skills (7)
nunit10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
test-framework10
test-driven-design10
csharp10
testing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nunit/nunit
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
NUnit Framework
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the NUnit framework's testing capabilities. They've implemented tests for platform-specific attributes, ensuring correct behavior when dealing with invalid platform names. Furthermore, the user added an `InvalidPlatformException` and associated tests. Their work involves modifying existing tests and adding new ones to improve the robustness and accuracy of the framework's test suite.
dotnettestingtest-frameworkc-sharpnunit-framework
david-proctor/david-proctor.github.io
Jun 2017 - Feb 2025
Source for my personal web site
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 9 months
jekyllweb-personalweb-sitepersonal-web-site
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