Summary
Wade Baird is a senior software engineer with nearly two decades of experience architecting and shipping .NET, C#, SQL Server, and Dynamics AX solutions across enterprise and contract settings. He blends deep low-level expertise—having worked on early ORM frameworks and Dynamics AX core features at Microsoft—with modern full-stack and mobile development using ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, Xamarin, and Azure. A frequent consultant and founder of Sunbreak Software, he excels at translating business needs into robust on-premise and cloud-enabled systems while collaborating closely with customers. Outside of traditional engineering roles he’s taken unconventional paths—such as a long-running career as a professional skydiver—bringing calm leadership and risk-tolerant problem solving to high-stakes projects.
7 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at North Dakota State University
English