David Van Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Native Client PlatformClient Engineering for Smart TVs, Game Consoles, and more.Helping to expand our streaming services globally to millions of devices around the world.Engineering the Living Room experience for:Disney Plus (Disney+)Star / Star Plus (Star+)ESPN Plus (ESPN+)NHL (National Hockey League)C# / Godot Game Engine (v1)Rust & WebAssembly (Wasm) / In-House Engine (v2)

New York, Ny, Us

Connected Devices

New York, New York

New York, New York

Disney Streaming Services

New York, New York

MLB/MLB Advanced Media & Vertigo Software -> BAMTech Media -> Disney Streaming Services

Burbank, Ca, Us

Burbank, Ca, Us

Disney Streaming Services / BAMTech Media

Burbank, Ca, Us

Disney Streaming Services / BAMTech Media

Burbank, Ca, Us

Disney Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products (DPECP)

Working on the Engineering Excellence / Reference Architecture team to build reusable components for various teams within The Walt Disney Company.Contributed to the development of a hybrid framework, for both iOS (Swift) and Android (Java), around web views.Re-architected and refactored Android hybrid framework code to be more "clean" and to use interactors and workers.Aided in development of Polymer Web Components, Angular/AngularJS applications, and Ionic hybrid mobile applications.

Glendale, Ca, Us

Worked on the Core Production Services (CorPS) team (Infrastructure Engineering), creating the next-generation microservices-based feature animation pipeline, PipelineX.Fixed bugs in Spring services and wrote SoapUI tests to test services.Created a custom web application (webapp) tool to help visualize microservices ecosystem using d3.js.

Burbank, California, Us

Architected specification processor that processed JSON specification files into an intermediate JSON format and an intermediate JSON format parser in order to automate creation of data model classes using Kotlin and KotlinPoet for use in Disney/ABC’s mobile Android apps.Wrote unit tests.Contributed bug fixes with tests back to open-source project KotlinPoet (by Square), an open-source API for generating Kotlin source code (.kt) files.Fixed various bugs (e.g. profile, video player, UI/UX, authentication, etc.) in Disney NOW (Android [Kotlin] / RxJava), one of Disney’s flagship streaming apps.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Disney-ABC

Washington, Dc, Us

Research Assistant and Programmer for Machine Learning laboratory (funded by U.S. Department of Transportation [DOT], California Department of Transportation [Caltrans], and Volvo Research and Educational Foundations [VREF]) focusing on low-powered IoT (Internet of Things) devices.Project involves the classification of vehicles on roads via machine learning methods.Assisted with writing research paper/journal.

Mclean, Va, Us

Participated in a highly selective program (one of 32) held by Capital One. Learned about developing for iOS, Android, Chat Bots, and Alexa (Alexa Skills). Also learned about Arduino, IoT (internet of things), Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT), and developing for both hardware and software. Learned about AWS (Amazon Web Services) and its various services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and more. Ended with a 24 hour hackathon.Created "Vixen - Splurge Less" in 24 hours. Utilized Capital One's Nessie API to mock transactions. Vixen allows Capital One customers to enable smart management of their money by having automatic deposits into savings accounts (or donations to charity if customer wishes) when splurge spending (e.g. multiple purchases at Starbucks) is detected.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Working in the Price Publish team, a subgroup of the Price team.The Price Publish team ensures that the proper prices are shown on Target’s website and in Target’s stores.Handled millions and billions of records and messages.Consolidated APIs used by digital/internal consumers by bridging digital and store APIs together to form an ”Omni API.”Engineered messaging and event processing systems using Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, and Apache Storm.Created APIs with Spring Boot. APIs are used and consumed daily, and are crucial to the success a multi-billion dollar business.Collaborated in an Agile setting (sprints, stand-ups, stories, epics, etc.), wrote tests, and implemented DevOps (CD/CI) practices into my projects.Deployed software using Drone, Docker, and Kubernetes (K8s)

Mountain View, Ca, Us

One of 40 students selected by my school's Computer Science department to participate in a Google-led initiative to learn applications of Computer Science in everyday situations using Android.Lectures and projects on Binary Search Trees, Anagrams, etc.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

One of 45 students (out of over 400 applicants) invited to a symposium on diversity and leadership in the workplace.Won second place in Target's technical case study (technology innovation challenge) with "Spin More, Pay Less." This was presented to a team of tech leads and product managers, etc.Spin More, Pay Less - Save money by using Target's Cartwheel application! Visit a Target store and spin a wheel for coupons, including the rare X% off an entire purchase!

Washington, Dc, Us

C++ Programmer (Research Assistant) for a NASA-funded research program at CSULB.Work involved haptic/force-feedback devices in cockpits and its uses in manipulation of aircraft traffic routes and selection of other aircrafts in Cockpit Situation Display (CSD) software, which involved singleton implementation of various classes.Implemented a GUI interface for entering force values, and various other options.Integrated a data logging system built by another intern.Fixed various bugs and improved stability.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.) And Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, B.S. And Japanese, B.A.

High School, Cic Magnet Program