David Skudra Email & Phone Number

Bellingham, Wa, Us

Confluence Scale & Decomposition team

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Enterprise Check Disbursements Team• Designed and implemented serverless architecture solution using Lambda + DynamoDB to support Auto Finance client• Migrated lengthy ECS batch processes to active-active architecture using distributed locks• Implemented support for enterprise check disbursement to international addresses outside USA & CAN• Design and development work to support check disbursement OFAC restriction screening• Used Redis to resolve at-least-once delivery duplicate Kafka message issue• Onboarded new clients to modernized check platform from legacy platform• Worked in CI/ CD environment primarily with Git/Jenkins/AWS• Created an RDS cross-region failover script in Python to support minimum RTO during regional service outages

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Basking Ridge, New Jersey

• Developed a point of sales web application with Java based microservices and AngularJS• Designed and integrated a relational database with Hibernate and PostgreSQL• Added realtime updates to the web application using publisher/subscriber pattern with RabbitMQ and SockJS• Tested persistence and service layer using JUnit, web layer using Postman• Presented and demo'd completed application to CIO at end of internship

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked with the Diagnostics and Prognostics group under Intelligent Systems at the NASA Ames Research Center.• Accelerated a C++ lithium-ion battery prognostic model, using OpenMP and CUDA parallel programming libraries.• Ran battery prognostic model on the NASA Pleiades supercomputer, yielding a 1218.27% performance increase with OpenMP and a 905.46% performance increase with CUDA (i7 Ivy single core vs. i7 Ivy 16 core and Tesla K40, respectively).• Used OpenMP to improve prognostic Monte Carlo prediction performance within Diagnostic and Prognostics' flagship application, GSAP.• Monte Carlo predictor saw significant performance increases on critical embedded systems; 234.2% on NVIDIA Jetson and 221.9% on Raspberry Pi.• Wrote and published a technical memorandum under the NASA Science and Technical Information program on GPU/CPU hybrid programming strategies.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Worked with the Configuration Management component of the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform. Primarily used C, C++, TCL, and Python.• Developed the Automation Framework for Ciena Licensing software using TCL, Python and Atlassian Bamboo.• Led a presentation for the Licensing team on how to continue development on the Automation Framework.• Presentation was recorded and shared company-wide as an example on how to use Ciena’s automation stack.• Set up a proxy service to allow simulated network elements on workstations to reach external license servers.• Eliminated a max 98 second delay from a high priority VxWorks task in C, caused by lengthy application callbacks.• Removed dead states and error states from a FTP finite state machine in C/C++.