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Palo Alto, California, Us

Developed backend application in Go for Kubernetes, enhancing build and deployment as part of Broadcom’s Secure Software Supply Toolchain for secure, scalable image management.* Researched and implemented telemetry data using OpenTelemetry SDK, uncovering a critical bug where the code worked but did not behave as expected, leading to performance improvements.* Collaborated with team members, through pair programming, to quickly ramp up on the code base, identifying key issues and contributing to the telemetry feature within the first month.

San Francisco, California, Us

Built Go-based application on Kubernetes, improving security and accessibility of vulnerability scan reports in VMware's Secure Software Supply Toolchain.* Gained Kubernetes expertise through tutorials and building sample applications, leading to more effective contributions to team projects involving the platform.* Created a proof-of-concept application in Go that set the foundation for future product development, serving as a template for a new product within the suite. * Spearheaded the design and development of a logging feature that enhanced traceability and monitoring, with documentation referenced by multiple teams for future projects.* Created and maintained a Concourse CI pipeline, surfacing bugs earlier in the development cycle and improving team confidence in code quality for smoother, reliable releases.* Ensured adherence to coding standards and Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology while reviewing team members pull requests, thus improving test coverage and preventing production bugs. * Improved team processes and efficiency by providing actionable feedback on workflows, leading to smoother project delivery and enhanced team collaboration.

San Francisco, California, Us

Working in Pivotal Cloud Foundry, developed cloud based software and Windows operating systems for enabling customers to deploy and operate modern applications on a cloud-native platform.* Lead project engineer of end-to-end automation process for creation of Windows operating system on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Automation process highly praised by internal by internal and external customers.* Lead team effort for migrating push notification product to Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging system; included short tutorial video. Project delivered on time, and increased customer adoption of the product.* Reduced customer time, confusion, and issues by developing tools and processes to automate the creation, and deployment of Windows operating systems on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. * Reduced customer downtime of production servers by helping triage and resolve issues quickly and efficiently.* Decrease bugs count in the wild, and increased customer confidence by creating and updating continuous integration pipelines for automation testing and publishing of products.

San Francisco, California, Us

Working in Pivotal Labs - scoped, designed and developed Java based mobile applications for the Android platform in a continuous software development environment.* Developed highly rated mobile applications for Blackberry and Android devices for and with various clients* Gained customer confidence by meeting or exceeding schedule deadline and feature request, and aiding in feature prioritisation and scheduling. In turn, led to team leadership on several client based projects.* Helped in the recruitment process by interviewing candidates on technical abilities, collegiality, and inquisitiveness. * Increased client confidence in created mobile applications by creating and maintaining various production pipelines for continuous integration, testing, and deployment.* Met customer deadline and schedules by investigating, prioritising, and managing backlog of features and issues

Developed C++ mobile application for the Blackberry Z10 platform. Developed end user UI using Qt and Cascades SDK.* Met customer requirements and expectations by creating custom UI components not present in Cascades SDK.* Produced code by second week by adapting quickly to new Agile development environment, pair programming, platform, and code base.* Kept high level of software quality by developing clean code and easy to understand interfaces.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Scoped, designed and developed C/C++ software applications and feature improvements. Developed end user UI using Qt SDK. Managed small to medium sized projects from scoping through testing. Assisted in management, scoping, design and development of large projects.* Worked efficiently in large code base by being primary developer and owning parts of code of AMD Catalyst Control Center – Linux Edition and AMD Driver Library SDK. * Met internal and external customer needs by scoping, designing, developing and debugging user interface application enhancements within tight resource constraints.* Efficiently designed and documented application features by collaborating with cross-functional and geographically distributed development teams.* Improved user experience of application by updating display picker UI to more intuitive graphical layout mirroring user’s actual display configuration. Improved display selection when system contained multiple displays of similar make and model.* Reduced code duplication for internal applications 10% by designing and developing enhancements to Linux & Windows cross-platform driver SDK, written in C. Increased code manageability, and allowed external customers to interface with drivers.* Reduced end-user application code complexity, code duplication, and application size by refactoring old code based on new methodologies learned.* Ported C# Windows application enhancement to C++ Linux application enhancement, resulting in quick and efficient development of feature parity between platform specific software to meet customer demand and needs. * Joined UI review committee, ensuring all developed UI conformed to company standard and guidelines. Improved end-user application intuitiveness by participating in design and evaluation of user interface.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Member of the developer team for award-winning ATI Multimedia Center written in Visual C++ using COM and DirectShow technologies. Primary developer for the DVD and Video-CD components.* Improved debugging and feature enhancement efficiency of DVD player by redesigning and increasing separation between rendering engine and user interface.* Improved test case efficiency for development team and reduced number of bugs in downstream testing by leading implementation of automatic testing initiative and providing new testing standard suggestions.* Improved product differentiation by designing and implementing challenging application, embedding TV broadcast and TV guide inside Internet Explorer bar.* Assisted in improving product quality by designing feature enhancement, reviewing documentation, and suggesting UI design and code changes.* Improved versioning process efficiency by developing internal graphical tool to semi-automate process. Used to update version numbers of team’s software components.

Santa Clara, California, Us

* Improved code reuse into new code architecture, reducing development time by upgrading legacy code to new company standard and converting code to COM architecture.* Increased product awareness, and improved internal testing of AC3 CODEC, by designing and implementing AC3 test application in DirectShow and C++. Application used for demonstration of hardware capabilities to customers and expositions.* Saved time on new product development by maintaining legacy application, fixing legacy bugs and implementing features improvement on legacy application, allowing rest of team to focus on new product development. * Acknowledged by management as quick learner by starting first development project, within a month, quickly learning COM, DirectShow and understanding product software code.