David Ek is a Principal Applications Engineer at NI (National Instruments). Colleagues describe him as "A few months have passed since I stopped managing my team, great opportunity to reflect and get perspectives on things, and I had an awesome team and the managers at NI that manages them today should consider themselves lucky! I worked closely with David for years, first when he joined as a technical support engineer and later when he joined the applications engineering team where I later managed him and since we worked in the same office, I got to know him well and I fully understand why he was one of the few engineers that NI kept in Sweden. Very talented engineer that quickly learns new topics and trends that he combines with excellent technical skills, both NI products/offerings and customer technologies/products, strong customer focus and business acumen and he is well equipped to be highly successful within the new NI. He was involved in one of our forward investment projects for aerospace/defense customers and we could quickly see results on work done with multiple opportunities / projects identified and what was even more impressive was how he handled all the roles, project manager, software development lead and developer at the same time."