Daniel L. Bucci

Objective

Experienced Software Engineer seeking a job that utilizes my programming and problem solving skills

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, May 2015
GPA: 3.68

Work Experience

Staff Software Developer, Observe Inc. (Remote)

May 2023 - Dec. 2023

• TypeScript Strictening - Improved codebase by removing ts-expect-error comments TS React
• List Virtualizations - Virtualized list components to improve performance for large lists TS React

Senior Software Developer, Hulu/Disney (Seattle, WA)

Oct. 2020 - Apr. 2023 | Aug. 2015 - Oct. 2020 (Non-Senior) | Jun. - Aug. 2014 (Intern)

• Cerebro - Built Disney's Experiment Intelligence platform Kotlin Micronaut MySQL Snowflake
• Spearmint - Built Hulu's internal A/B testing platform, doing frontend, backend, and data-processing work Java Kotlin Scala Stylus TS AngularJS Hive MySQL Node.js React Snowflake Spark Vert.x
• Glyph - Worked on frontend for Hulu's internal metrics tracking platform CS SASS AngularJS Druid Hadoop MySQL Node.js Storm
• Isotope - As an intern, worked on a team to design and create an internal configuration service CSS JS AngularJS MySQL Node.js

Software Developer, Autolab Project (Pittsburgh, PA)

May 2013 - May 2015 CSS HTML JS Ruby MySQL Rails

• Worked on Carnegie Mellon's assignment "auto-grading" website
• Led upgrade from Rails 2 to Rails 4
• Helped open source project to be used at other schools

Computer Science Course Assitant, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)

Jan. 2012 - May 2013 Python

• Taught a recitation and held office hours weekly
• Supervised 20 students on their term projects
• Proctored and graded quizzes, tests, and homework

Languages

• Kotlin - Led team effort to migrate Spearmint Java services to Kotlin
• Java - Worked on multiple backend services written in Java using the Vert.x framework
• TypeScript - Expertise in TypeScript with practice since 2016
• JavaScript - Expertise in JavaScript (ECMAScript 3+) with practice since 2012
• CSS / SCSS / Stylus - Expertise in CSS as well as SCSS and Stylus preprocessors
• HTML / Markdown / Pug - Expertise in HTML, including knowledge of proper semantics and how it interacts with CSS to properly style web pages
• Python 2 & 3 - Expertise with experience in using both versions to write servers and scripts alike
• Scala - Wrote multiple Apache Spark jobs using Scala
• CoffeeScript - Almost 2 years of CoffeeScript experience working on Glyph
• ActionScript 3.0 - Wrote 5 flash games in this language
• Experience with Scala, CoffeeScript, ActionScript 3.0, C, C++, C#, Haxe, Ruby, SQL

Technologies

• React - Rewrote the Spearmint UI in React (from AngularJS)
• AngularJS - Worked on/built AngularJS sites for Isotope, Glyph, and Spearmint
• Express/Node.js - Built several Express servers for various purposes while working at Hulu
• Frontend Tools - Experience with Redux, Bootstrap, Gulp, Webpack, Rollup, ESBuild, Nginx
• Java Frameworks - Wrote several Spearmint services with Vert.x and built Cerebro with Micronaut
• Big Data - Wrote Spark and Hadoop ETL jobs that wrote/read from Hive, Kafka, MySQL, and Snowflake
• Rails - Upgraded Autolab from Rails 2 to Rails 4, getting a broad experience of working with Rails
• AWS - Experience with S3, Aurora MySQL, IAM, and Kinesis
• MySQL - Used MySQL databases for all projects worked on at Hulu
• Cloud Technologies - Worked with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Terraform
• Experience with Rails, AWS, MySQL, Cloud Technologies,

Personal Websites

• Spiritus - Web app for creating sprite art, comics, and animations CSS HTML TS Express Node.js
• bucci.pro - Server built to deploy several smaller web apps/projects, such as this resume! Nginx PM2
• SuperFTC.com - Personal blog used to showcase games, comics, and more CSS HTML JS Python Bottle.py Google App Engine
• FoodTheChildren.com - Personal blog V1. First website CSS HTML JS PHP MySQL

Published Games

• Jet Pack Jesus - Control Jesus in a Jetpack, as he collects cheese and avoids falling bricks CSS JS HTML WebGL
• Electric Cock Rocket - Control a robotic chicken as he fights off invading aliens CSS JS HTML
• Electric War - Simple puzzle game that's a hybrid of Chess and Electric Football CSS JS HTML
• Rodman vs. Kim: One on One - Play as Dennis Rodman against Kim Jong Un in a game of 1 on 1 basketball. Made for the AV Club's Gaming Retrospective 2013 AS3 Flash
• Cole Slaw - Win the race again, in this sequel to Feed the Children AS3 Flash
• Ski Free or Die Hard - Homage to SkiFree, but with more pixelated violence and chaos AS3 Flash
• Feed the Children - Racing game that turns into a chaotic shooter AS3 Flash
• Hectris - Connect-3 puzzle game where pieces fall from all 4 directions AS3 Flash