David Santamaria
Software Engineer • CS @ University of Central Florida
Freelance Software Engineer
Jan 2025 - Present •
- Performed data annotation and evaluation for Scale AI, supporting model fine-tuning for software engineer and reasoning related tasks
- Wrote dashboard.zeroentropy.dev for ZeroEntropy (YC W25)
- Provided 1:1 tutoring and mentoring for students learning undergraduate Computer Science and Mathematics
Software Engineer Intern - Network Doctor Team
May 2024 - Aug 2024 • Sunnyvale, CA
- Intern at the Network Doctor team - detecting and diagnosing network anomalies across Google’s production fleet
- Implemented a data-processing pipeline in C++ to validate historical GCP telemetry data snapshots against cloud records and report anomolous activity.
- Orchestrated production deployment using pod batch scheduling, providing immediate visibility to the team's data quality efforts.
Software Engineer Intern
VertexGraph
May 2022 - Aug 2022 • Remote
- Fixed bugs and improved code quality
- Wrote unit tests for core functionality
- Created comprehensive documentation
University of Central Florida
B.S. in Computer Science
Jan 2021 - Dec 2024 • Orlando, FL
HorizonOS
A hobby operating system written in C targeting x86 and x86_64
- Working bootloader, interrupts, paging, keyboard driver, and kernel land shell on x86.
RAG Chatbot
Retrieval-Augmented Generation chatbot
- A chatbot with RAG functionality allowing users to perform queries on unstructured data such as PDFs
- Built with TypeScript, Python, and the ZeroEntropy API
Chime Chat Application
Full-stack chat application in Nextjs
- Full stack chat application styled after Discord to practice system design with Redis and NoSQL databases
- Used JWTs for user authorization
Home Lab
Self-hosted infrastructure
- Self-hosted home lab running a personal site on Next.js and additional services
- Temporary file transfer, custom wiki, self hosted github
Ternary Search
Custom competitive programming contest platform
- A site that allows a small group of users to participate in custom competitive programming style contests
- Spiritual successor to binarysearch.com
Proficient
C++CPythonLinuxGitBashSQLJavaScriptTypeScript
Experience With
JavaHTMLCSSReactRedisNext.jsRAGVector DBDockerNoSQL
UCF Programming Team
Fall 2021 - May 2022
- ICPC Southeast Regional Contest 2022, Division 2 - 1st Place
- Studied algorithms, data structures, and competitive programming
Other Competitions
- AMC Stetson 2016, 2017 - 10th, 2nd Place
- HPE CodeWars Houston Texas (Novice Division): 2016, 2017 - 12th, 26th Place
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