David Baldon
Solution Architect, DB2 Backup & Recovery at BMC Software
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Baldon is a seasoned solution architect specializing in DB2 backup and recovery on IBM mainframes, with a career stretching back to 1985 and deep hands-on experience from systems programming to product architecture. At BMC he has led development of core DB2 infrastructure, automated SAP backup/recovery solutions, and client/server configuration systems, consistently bridging low-level mainframe internals with cross-platform APIs. He embraces modern practices—Zowe, DevOps, RESTful APIs and GUI transitions—while retaining the pragmatic command-line expertise that keeps critical financial and insurance workloads reliable. Beyond product work, he contributes front-end improvements to popular OSS tools like a YNAB browser extension, showing an appetite for user-facing polish as well as backend robustness. Based in Austin, he combines institutional mainframe knowledge with a clear focus on making legacy platforms accessible and developer-friendly for the next generation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate, Computer Science, Associate, Computer Science at Parks College
Github Skills (11)
uid10
google-chrome-extension10
javascript10
webextension10
firefox-addon10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
chrome-extension10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
css9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
toolkit-for-ynab/toolkit-for-ynab
Feb 2016 - Jul 2021
A general purpose YNAB enhancing browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Have it your way!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 179 commits, 95 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:David's commits primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining a YNAB-enhancing browser extension. Their contributions involved significant modifications to the extension's front-end code, specifically addressing UI elements, goal indicators, and budget progress bars. The user also implemented features such as customizing account row heights and adding a clear selection option to the account register, demonstrating a focus on improving the user's experience within the YNAB platform.
browser-extensionchromefirefoxynabbudget
dbaldon/toolkit-for-ynab
Sep 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:67 pushes, 64 branches, 2 tags in 4 years 7 months
firefoxbrowserynabenhancingchrome
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