David Vydra
Development Expert at SAP
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Vydra is a Fellow in Developer Experience at SAP with 13 years of leadership in quality engineering, cloud reliability, and Generative AI. He blends hands-on engineering and managerial experience across startups and enterprise firms—spanning roles from build-and-release at GE Digital to quality leadership at Time by Ping and SAP. A spec-driven development enthusiast, he emphasizes clear contracts and testable APIs to accelerate delivery and reduce risk in complex cloud environments. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs deep pragmatic knowledge of CI/CD, test engineering, and release processes with coaching experience that nudges teams toward continuous delivery. Notably, his career stitches together early engineering work at Google and long-running roles in Bay Area product teams, giving him a rare perspective on scaling quality practices from prototype to production. He brings organizational savvy from a Northwestern degree in Organizational Behavior/Computer Studies to translate technical quality goals into measurable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraBS Organizational Behavior/Computer Studies, BS Organizational Behavior/Computer Studies at Northwestern University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
java9
kotlin9
thymeleaf9
gradle9
behavior-driven-development8
maven8
predix8
groovy8
spring-data-jpa8
backend8
bank8
junit8
unit-testing7
heroku7
spring-boot7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vydra/kid-bank
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
Not a real bank, but keeps track of your kid's earnings, savings, and spending. Watch me Live Code its development on Twitch.
Contributions:7 PRs, 39 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 7 months
kidsavingsjavascriptlive-codeearnings
vydra/dill-lang
Sep 2014 - Jun 2018
A simple java-based tool for Behavior Driven Development
Contributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 9 months
behavior-driven-developmentjava
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