David Santamaria
Software Engineer • CS @ University of Central Florida
- Added multilingual BM25 support for document parsing
- Developed dashboard.zeroentropy.dev for top-k search over documents
- Worked on network anomaly detection for Google Cloud Platform
- Implemented C++ data-processing pipeline for validating GCP telemetry data
- Managed production deployment using pod batch scheduling
Software Engineer Intern
VertexGraph
May 2022 - Aug 2022 • Remote
- Fixed bugs and improved code quality
- Wrote unit tests for core functionality
- Created comprehensive documentation
B.S. Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Jan 2022 - Dec 2025 • Orlando, FL
HorizonOS
Hobby operating system in C for x86/x86_64
- Implemented bootloader, interrupts, paging, and keyboard driver
- Built from scratch targeting x86 architecture
RAG Chatbot
Retrieval-Augmented Generation chatbot
- Query unstructured data (PDFs) using RAG
- Built with TypeScript, Python, and ZeroEntropy API
Chime Chat Application
Full-stack chat application with CLI tool
- Real-time chat using Redis and NoSQL
- Command-line interface for advanced users
Home Lab
Self-hosted infrastructure
- Personal site on Next.js
- Services: file transfer, custom wiki, self-hosted GitHub
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 2017 - 2nd Place
- AMC Stetson 2016 - 10th Place
- HPE CodeWars Houston Texas (Novice) 2016 - 12th Place