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Danny Dukeshire

a Software Engineer based in Arlington, MA

About Me

I am an experienced software engineer driven by innovation and problem-solving. With a strong background in development and a passion for impactful solutions, I excel at tackling complex challenges. My proficiency spans across diverse development environments and frameworks, enabling me to design efficient and dependable software systems.

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, New York
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
GPA: 3.5 / 4.0
Awards & Honors: Cum Laude, Rensselaer Deans Honor List, National Society for Leadership and Success, A.L. Love III ’42 Scholarship, Rensselaer Leadership Award, Liberty League All-Academic, Norman F. and Marilyn W. Jones Scholarship

My Work Experience

  • Spearheaded efforts to enhance cloud background IO performance within the ONTAP RAID storage system, focusing on transitioning from an IO interval-based approach to a throughput rate (IOPS) basis. This transformation provided users with configurable options, allowing them to optimize the system's performance based on their specific requirements.
  • Designed and architected a virtual simulation framework, leveraging Python's testing libraries and tools to create a robust and scalable testing environment.
  • Implemented a suite of virtual simulation tests to validate RAID operations, including data redundancy, parity calculations, fault tolerance, and data reconstruction.
  • Collaborated with the development team to identify critical RAID processes and their dependencies, ensuring comprehensive test coverage for essential functionalities, and the reliability and resilience of the RAID subsystem.
  • Actively monitored and analyzed system performance metrics, comparing the results obtained from virtual simulation unit tests against the expected improvements in IO throughput based on the new approach.
  • Acted as a subject matter expert on virtual simulation unit testing and throughput-based IO performance, providing guidance and support to colleagues, and fostering best practices within the team.
  • Initiated the design, development, and maintenance of mission-critical applications supporting multiple business units across the fund as a dedicated Full-Stack developer.
  • Analyzed and responded to front-office traders' requests to enhance and customize an internal portfolio management system and accounting codebase, delivering tailored solutions to meet their specific needs.
  • Developed intuitive web interfaces using JavaScript + jQuery, effectively modeling data for comprehensive desk analysis and enabling seamless user workflows.
  • Expanded quantitative research capabilities by implementing enhancements and optimizing workflows within Microsoft SQL Server, facilitating more efficient data analysis and decision-making processes.
  • Managed a complex proprietary trading system in C# .Net Core, ensuring its stability and performance while supporting day-to-day operational processes within the CMBS trading desk.

May 2019 - August 2019

Software Engineering Intern

Customer Sync LLC
  • Lead the development of an add-on solution for Scribe software, delivering advanced and highly customizable email notification capabilities to users.
  • Leveraged SQL Server, T-SQL, HTML, C#, and .NET to architect and implement robust programs that efficiently queried specific databases for real-time error detection and ongoing bug monitoring.
  • Integrated with Gmail and utilized HTML interfaces to establish a seamless and efficient update service, ensuring prompt and accurate notifications to users.
  • Played a vital role in the design of data-mapping software, employing Agile development methodologies to facilitate iterative and incremental development cycles.
  • Collaborated closely with the development team, actively participating in requirement gathering, providing technical insights, and contributing to the continuous improvement of the solution.
  • The end result was a highly reliable, configurable, and performance-optimized solution that significantly improved user experience and streamlined communication processes.
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Projects

A collection of my college and personal projects I feel are worth a look.

 Mobile Sensor Network Relay

An implementation of a mobile sensor network, delivering data packets through connected nodes in a graph. The objective of the proposed network structure is to minimize delays in the data collection and communication processes. Required knowledge of Python, select() calls, graph theory, and socket programming.

 Knight's Tour Solver

A single-process multi-threaded system that solves the knight’s tour problem, i.e., can a knight move over all squares exactly once on a given board? The program determines whether a valid solution is possible on an m × n board, accomplished by simulating valid moves. When multiple moves are detected, each possible move is allocated to a new child thread, forming a tree of possible moves. Written in C, demonstrated knowledge of mutexes, locks, multithreading, memory allocation, and concurrency.

 CPU Scheduling Simulator

Understanding the working of scheduling algorithms provides us with a knowledge of how to analyze the scheduling of processes, resource utilization, and performance in real-time applications. Various algorithms perform differently and have their unique set of characteristics, which are advantageous depending on the scienario and application. This simulator enables us to visualize the characteristics of the First Come First Serve, Round Robin, Shortest Job First, and Shortest Remaining Time algorithms. Implemented in C++, this project required knowledge of I/O programming, threading & concurrency, process management, and synchronization.

 N-Gram Statistics and Automated Text Summariazation

A regex pattern-matching algorithm that accepts input from the user to calculuate interesting N-gram statistics on a given webpage or document. Written in C, made use of hash functions and complex data structure techniques.

 Word Guessing Game

Allowed users to play a random word guessing game over a TCP connection via netcat. After a random word is generated, the user interacts with a bot to input, or guess, the correct word after a series of hints.

 Bash Shell Implementation

A rudimentary interactive shell similar to that of bash. Prompts the user to enter a command, parses the given command, locates the command executable, then executes the given command. Written in C, required knowledge of process creation, process management, and inter-process communication via fork(), wait(), waitpid(), pipe(), etc.

 Rubiks Cube Solver using A*

(In-Process) Simulation of a Rubiks cube in Python, with an active GUI representing the rotations of a cube. Provided the option, the simulator solves the Cube via a human-based algorithm, or the A* path finding algorithm.

What People Say

"Most of (Dan's) learning was self- taught, and he demonstrated the drive to learn and perseverance to push through roadblocks. When he did need help or direction, he accepts coaching and feedback well. The attention to detail that he practiced throughout the project, and the quality of his work were outstanding."

Jim Clarke CEO, Customer Sync LLC

"Anyone who knows Daniel could only describe him with one word: selfless. He constantly puts others before himself, even though he receives no reward for doing so. Besides teaching me numerous practical skills, Dan has been a model individual whose character inspires me to be a better person."

Dody Eid Senior Analyst, Analysis Group
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Contact

Phone

(603) 918 7348

Email

danieladukeshire@gmail.com