David Southard
Software Engineer at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Southard is a seasoned software engineer based in Madison, WI with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating full-stack Ruby on Rails and Elixir applications. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison he has combined developer and systems responsibilities—shipping public-facing and intranet apps while owning installation, configuration, maintenance, and upgrades for production systems. Strong communication and project management skills help him translate stakeholder needs into robust, long-lived technical solutions that improve usability, efficiency, and stability. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and consultant, he brings a pragmatic, forward-thinking approach to integrating modern tooling into legacy environments. Outside work he tinkers with libraries and small reusable tools—“typing on keyboards” to make things that other engineers can plug into their stacks.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeMilwaukee School of Engineering
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
multithreading10
material-design-icons10
circleci10
opal10
ruby10
gitea10
backup10
rack10
encryption10
react-rails10
api10
gitlab-ce10
integrate10
rails10
gitlab10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
UW-Madison-Library/bibcard
Apr 2017 - Mar 2022
Library Linked Data for building knowledge cards.
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 11 months
json-ldlinked-dataknowledgesemanticssparql
UW-Madison-Library/bibcard-demo
Jan 2018 - May 2022
A simple Rails app demonstrating the use of the BibCard gem.
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 5 months
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailsasciidoctorhotel-booking
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