Dave Bry

About Dave Bry

Senior Software Engineer with 20 years of experience architecting and delivering…

Experience

1. Curriculum Developer

   Tech Elevator

   Jan 2020 — Present · Cleveland, OH, US

   I led the design and development of modern web development curriculum for more than students preparing for software engineering careers. My focus was on bringing core software development concepts and industry best practices into the classroom, while scaling the curriculum to deliver cutting-edge material that kept pace with industry demands.• Modernized front-end curriculum by introducing React, semantic HTML, and ES6/JSX syntax. This improved the learning experience and also helped boost graduate job placement rates by 20% with higher starting salaries.• Built curriculum infrastructure by creating a versioning strategy and automated CI/CD pipeline to bundle material from more than 30 Git repositories into our LMS. This process supported over 500 concurrent students and allowed us to rapidly iterate on course material.• Designed hands-on projects to give students real-world practice with REST APIs, SQL databases, and web technologies, improving both progression rates and student confidence.• Automated grading and testing with Dockerized pipelines and testing frameworks like MSTest, JUnit, Cypress, Mocha, and Vitest.• Introduced serverless APIs for labs with Express.js functions, giving students realistic experience with external APIs rather than only local setups.

Education

• High Technology High School

  High School, Web Development & Programming Track

  1998 — 2002

• Temple University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Information Science & Technology

  2002 — 2007