Lean Startup maven with a developer background who has founded multiple companies. Long-time mentor for Lean Startup Machine and Lean Startup conference.

Agile seems broken. What’s going on!? * New software features aren’t being delivered on time. Deadlines are being missed! * The software is buggy! * The team is feeling pressure, stress, and frustration! I help software development teams deliver the most prized software features with the lowest budget risks.

Wide experience in Project Management and its application to business development and strategy. Develop your business as a project, using best practices, so your won't forget anything and keep in mind risks, resources and timing.

Schedule a call to learn about how your team could move faster by applying Extreme Programming Practices. Dave Schinkel is a passionate and experienced software professional who has worked as a consultant, mentor, Technical Coach, and Senior or Lead engineer on dozens of projects for a wide range of clients. He has helped motivate and mentor developers on unit testing, test isolation, and clean code. He has helped reinforce a culture of Agility, which includes setting up automated builds and deployments, trunk driven development, pushing super small changes to obtain fast feedback from developers and customers alike. Dave built and maintains a website WeDoTDD.com (written in ReactJS), which discovers and tracks companies, developers, coaches practicing disciplined Test Driven Development & Extreme Programming. Dave also ran the Global Day of Code Retreat for Pillar Technology - Chicago in 2019. Dave’s professional experience includes a wide range of languages, technologies, and practices: Artificial Intelligence: Continuous Alignment Testing for LLMs, Jupyter Notebooks, MINIO, Goose IDE, CoPilot, OpenAI, Test Driving LLMs prompts, automating LLM tests in pipelines, and Google Gemini’s Generative Language API Development Practices Test Driven Development, Clean Code, SOLID, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery Extensive experience testing ReactJS and backends Languages TypeScript, Java, C#, Kotlin Tools AWS, Google Cloud Docker Travis, CircleCI Azure CI Pipelines GitHub Actions Automated Testing utilizing Test Driven Development JavaScript (Mocha, Chai, Enzyme, Jest, React Testing Library) Kotlin Test Framework JUnit XUnit Node.js Web Applications React, Redux, TypeScript, NextJS Webpack Linters React Styled Components, Flexbox, Material UI, Tailwind CSS Server-side APIs NodeJS, Express.js, Koa.js, GraphQL, Slack API Java Kotlin Databases: MySQL, Postgres Version Control: Git, BitBucket I've worked on ReactJS projects including: o FoxSports.com o Tweedl.com o Proxibid.com o PODS.com o Ford.com o Gitcoin.co (we were brought in to work on this open source project) o ParkerDewey.com o GoFormative.com o Mayfield Robotics (https://lnkd.in/gxuJbH72) o WeDoTDD.com Other projects: o Legacy.com (backend NodeJS) o PersonalizationMall.com (.NET) o TicketsNow.com (now part of Ticketmaster) (.NET)

Rails, Agile, XP, consulting, client management, test driven development, continuous integration, project management, all the things!

Founding Partner, growth hacker and product designer @ Lunabee Pte Ltd, editor of oneSafe. also: geek, entrepreneur, marketer, startup fanboy, internet & social addict.

My 15+ software engineering career has involved working with dozens of startups. But my personal and professional mission -- the thing that gets me out of bed in the morning -- is helping early-stage, bootstrapped, solopreneurs like yourself to get your idea(s) out of your head and into the real world.