David Wadden
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Wadden is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer-facing infrastructure, currently shaping content engineering at Netflix. His background spans product and engineering roles across Pivotal, VMware/Tanzu, and Red Hat where he focused on Cloud Foundry, app modernization, performance tuning, and developer enablement. He combines deep DevOps and cloud expertise with hands-on work in distributed systems, performance optimization, and open source-driven solutions. Based in Chicago, he brings a rare mix of platform product management and low-level engineering—grounded in an MS in Biomedical Engineering and a BS in Engineering Science & Mathematics—that helps translate complex operational challenges into pragmatic, developer-friendly systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Engineering Science & Mechanics, Mathematics, BS, Engineering Science & Mechanics, Mathematics at Virginia TechMS, Biomedical Engineering, MS, Biomedical Engineering at Marquette University
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Github Skills (47)
lattice10
javascript10
cloud-foundry10
distributed-systems10
workflow-engine10
java10
workflow-automation10
spring-boot10
pcf-dev10
workflow-management10
microservices10
vagrant10
grpc10
messaging9
stream-processing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
davidwadden/conductor-workers
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:96 commits, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
davidwadden/conductor
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Conductor is a microservices orchestration engine - https://netflix.github.io/conductor/
Contributions:129 pushes, 43 branches, 40 tags in 11 months
netflixconductororchestrationorchestration-enginemicroservices
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