David Wolff
Product Advocate
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Wolff is a product advocate and full-stack software engineer with six years of experience bridging technical delivery, education, and community-building across startups and edtech. He combines hands-on skills in React, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, WebSockets and PostgreSQL with a proven track record mentoring 200+ students, producing 50+ technical resources, and improving retention and placement rates—25% of mentees secured roles within three months. At Flatiron he reopened and operationalized a major campus, generating roughly $1M in revenue while creating documentation and processes to scale community leadership. He has led engineering teams in Web3 projects, negotiated scope and budget under pressure, and contributed to QA and test automation for curriculum repositories. David’s background in video production and instructional design gives him an unusual edge in crafting clear technical content and engaging developer experiences. Now at Strapi, he focuses on empowering developers and communities through product advocacy and practical tooling.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Development, Full Stack Development at Flatiron SchoolMass Communication, Television Production, Mass Communication, Television Production at Illinois State University
Github Skills (3)
pytest10
python10
testing10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
learn-co-curriculum/python-p3-oop-putting-it-all-together
Dec 2022 - May 2023
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 PRs, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:David focused on testing the functionality of code within the repository, specifically the `book.py` and `shoe.py` files. The primary contribution was writing and modifying test cases, as evidenced by the changes in `book_test.py` and `shoe_test.py` files, to ensure the correct behavior of the classes. This includes assertions to test initializations, setting values, and method functionality. Furthermore, the user updated and deleted older tests to keep the testing clear and maintainable.
DavidWolff218/icebreakers_backend
Jun 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:22 PRs, 115 pushes, 24 branches in 4 years
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