David Davidson

Senior Software Engineer

Portland, Oregon, United States11 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in React and JavaScript ecosystems.
  • Strong leadership and mentorship experience.
  • Proven track record in user activation projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Fullstack Engineer with strong leadership capabilities.

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EditingCopywritingGitLeadership

About

I'm interested in: * React and the React ecosystem, JavaScript, and functional programming * Mentorship, iterative improvement, and lifelong learning * Work culture that's productive, thoughtful, and fun

Experience

11 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Honeycomb.io

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2025Present · 5 mos

Postman

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2025Nov 2025 · 3 mos

Textio

6 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2025Jul 2025 · 5 mos

  • Built features under the constraints imposed by third-party systems where Textio's extension embeds
  • Developed expertise on those third-party systems
  • Led projects: integrating Textio for Performance Management into Workday, integrating Textio into
  • Greenhouse, building reports on customers’ published job posts (frontend lead within larger project), redesigning marketing site, and more
  • Joined or led customer calls around infosec, feature development, and debugging
  • Researched and wrote customer-facing docs on extension deployment, permissions, and data access
  • Gave input on scope, complexity, and risk associated with possible work
  • Key on-call responder to production incidents, built processes and tools to reduce them

Engineering Manager

Feb 2023Feb 2025 · 2 yrs

  • Led team of three to five engineers, focused on external apps (primarily browser extension that overlays AI writing guidance)
  • Collaborated with Product, UX, and TPM partners to define team and org roadmaps, working especially close to Product as a thought partner on what to build
  • Joined or led customer calls to understand feature requests and pain points
  • Provided coaching, leveling, mentorship, and opportunities tailored to reports’ career goals
  • Set technical direction, reviewed code and design docs, and implemented occasional fixes, features, and exploratory spikes
  • Conducted interviews across my team and others (including other job functions, like TPM and PM)
  • Helped senior leadership understand eng-driven work (“what’s the business value”?) and vice versa (“why are we building this?”), so the whole team understands projects’ value and priority
  • Led series of projects around user activation (free trial, post-install messaging, first-run onboarding, etc.)

Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2021Feb 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2020Aug 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2019Feb 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

Software Engineer

Jun 2018Jan 2019 · 7 mos

Formidable

Software Engineer

Oct 2014Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Seattle, WA

  • Because Formidable is a consultancy, I got the chance to do a lot of fun work with a lot of great clients:
  • Walmart:
  • Led three-developer team in migration of store pages (walmart.com/store) from Java/Backbone to Node/React/Redux
  • Supported high availability, including server/log monitoring, alerting/on-call duty, and successful preparation for holiday traffic
  • Maintained legacy store pages during migration, including standard feature work as well as company-wide initiatives like a11y and HTTPS support
  • Served on “Meta JS” code-review team, focused on best practices across the codebase
  • Worked with: React, Redux, Node, Hapi, Backbone, Java, OneOps
  • FlowJo:
  • Team lead on two-person Formidable team, under client's lead frontend engineer
  • Built account and user management features
  • Refactored existing codebase, improving test coverage, code reuse, and maintainability
  • Worked with: React, Redux, Reselect, Jest, redux-saga, styled-components
  • MicaSense:
  • As part of a two-person frontend team, built startup’s map viewing application from the ground up (micasense.com/atlas)
  • Worked with: Backbone, Marionette, Node, Mapbox
  • ImageQuix:
  • Built complex features for an Electron (desktop) photo-management app: configurable CSV exports, multi-node image creation/populating, drag-and-drop layouts, etc.
  • Worked with: Electron, React, MobX, react-dnd
  • Microsoft:
  • Helped train members of Office 365 team on React patterns and best practices
  • Worked with: React, early Flux, Radium (formidable.com/open-source/radium/)
  • Ookla:
  • Contributed to rewrite of speedtest.net, including interactive graph views
  • Worked with: Backbone, Node, D3
  • Internal:
  • Helped define and standardize process for building documentation to static sites
  • Helped build early version of formidable.com
  • Helped standardize hiring process

Education

Code Fellows

Certificate — software engineering in full-stack JavaScript

Jan 2014Jan 2014

Western Washington University

Certificate in web design and development

Jan 2012Jan 2013

Universidad de Alcalá

Máster en enseñanza de la lengua

Jan 2010Jan 2011

Willamette University

Bachelor of Arts — double major English/Spanish

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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