About Me
Welcome to my personal website! I’m Dave Amiana, a passionate developer exploring the vast world of software development.
I believe in the power of technology to transform lives and solve real-world problems. My journey in computer science is driven by curiosity, continuous learning, and a desire to innovate. I strive to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code while sharing my knowledge with the community.
Interests
- Programming Language Design
- Algorithms Design
- Compiler and Interpreters
- High-performance computation
- User Experience and Design
- Philosophy
Experience
Software Engineer - IT Foundations, Chevron
Feb 2024 - Present
- Developed frontend library components for an Enterprise UI library to support Python-Dash and render dashboards in native enterprise design language.
- Enhanced user experience and consistency across enterprise dashboards, improving data visualization and decision-making.
- Developed Enterprise language servers for Ansible Roles enabling autodoc, eager validation, code suggestions, and roles generation from the Azure Resource Manager Spec.
- Streamlined the development process for Ansible Roles, reducing errors and increasing productivity through automated documentation and validation.
Developed an internal Python module to automate API load testing in simulating medium and high network traffic testing for scalability and reliability of implementing the cloud architecture. This initiative ensured cloud architecture could handle varying levels of network traffic and emulated user behavior before release, improving its robustness and reliability for servicing enterprise applications.
- Designed improvements for integration tests on PaaS Ansible roles, focusing on Web-Queue Worker and N-tier architectures.
- Improved reliability and performance of PaaS solutions, ensuring robust and scalable architectures for enterprise applications.
- Worked on GenAI to enable code assist in writing Enterprise Ansible Playbooks.
- Designed and implemented the RAG solution with local inferencing to reduce computational cost by a significant margin (from 16GB model size to 600MB).
- Significantly reduced computational costs, enabling efficient and cost-effective development of Ansible Playbooks, and enhancing overall productivity.
Software Engineering & GIS Analyst Intern, Chevron
Software Engineering Intern - IT Foundations & Geospatial Information Systems
Aug 2023 - Nov 2023
- Worked on writing a Python library to automate geospatial data governance with ArcGIS Dashboards integratation, autodoc CI pipeline, and reusable components which streamlined geospatial data management, improved data accuracy, and enhanced decision-making through automated governance and real-time dashboard updates.
- Worked on a PowerPlatform tool to automate stale branch deletion, notify stakeholders with existing stale branches, and enable batch deletion. This initiative resulted into increased repository cleanliness, reduced manual maintenance efforts, and improved collaboration by keeping the codebase up-to-date and free of obsolete branches.
Software Engineering Intern - IT Foundations
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Worked on the enterprise model web application showcasing the best practices in Cloud architecture, API design, and web components as the new standard for the enterprise web apps. This initiative established a new standard for enterprise web apps, promoting scalability, maintainability, and efficient cloud integration.
Worked on .NET 6 migration for an enterprise library to digitize and augment the process field workers further enhancing the efficiency and productivity of field workers by providing modernized tools and streamlined workflows.
Conducted comprehensive testing of the container apps Ansible role to enable containerized app deployments.
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