David Woody
Chief Executive Officer at Differential
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDavid Woody is a CEO and founder with 12 years of experience building people-first digital products and scaling a fast-growing agency recognized by Inc. magazine. Based in Cincinnati, he blends human-centered design with continuous improvement to help organizations invent, prototype, and ship meaningful digital experiences. Before leading Differential, he gained foundational experience at PwC and studied finance, economics, and accounting at Miami University, giving him a strong business and analytical grounding. David remains hands-on technically—he has contributed to the popular Apollo Client open-source project by implementing optimistic response functionality and refactoring core data handling logic. That mix of executive leadership, product design focus, and direct engineering contributions enables him to bridge strategy and implementation effectively. He intentionally cultivates a startup-like culture inside a scaled agency to keep clients ahead of the innovation curve.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Finance, Economics, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Accounting at Miami University
Github Skills (10)
graphql10
typescript10
typescripts10
apollo-client10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
typescript-types10
javascript9
redux8
testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/apollo-client
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
:rocket: A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every UI framework and GraphQL server.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 16 days
Contributions summary:David implemented optimistic response functionality within the Apollo Client, modifying core components like `QueryManager`, `store.ts`, and `index.ts`. They also addressed linter and testing issues related to these changes and refactored the optimistic data handling logic. The user's work involved modifying reducer logic and data structures to better support and integrate with the optimistic update features of the client. The commits span across multiple files showing understanding of the internal workings of the client.
graphql-clientapollographqlui-frameworkproduction-readycaching
davidwoody/TrueVault-REST-API-for-Meteor
Aug 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 1 year 4 months
apimeteorresttruevaultrest-api
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